Departure of Jean Castex: “Mission completed for Cincinnatus”

Édouard Philippe had confirmed the “Pompidou theorem”;

Jean Castex made him lie.

, confided the former Prime Minister of De Gaulle who became his successor.

At 56, the outgoing head of government is far from approaching retirement age.

But he is one of the few politicians whose sincerity we do not doubt when he swears that he does not dream of taking the next step, not being a candidate for anything, not wanting to organize himself for the future.

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If the border is never obvious between ambition and service, between ego and selflessness, it would seem that with Jean Castex, Emmanuel Macron has found his Cincinnatus, ready to pick up his plow where he had left. left, after completing the mission entrusted to him.

Without asking for any extension or reward.

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