“
I know who the new prime minister is!”
The phrase resounds in the bakery, Place Catalunya.
Its author, darting a very proud look, chin raised and mocking smile, allows a long silence to hover.
His neighbour, who also came to get his bread, is patient.
And feels the joke rising.
“Well… It will be the same!”
Laughter bursts out.
"And why not, first?"
, we change our minds.
“Macron does not want to let him go!”
In Prades, the former mayor is the pride of its inhabitants.
“Jean”,
they call him here.
“Jeannot”,
soften others.
Jean Castex, as the rest of France knows him.
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"It was a July 3, 2020."
In this small village in the Pyrénées-Orientales, 6000 souls, there are dates that we do not forget.
Seated at the back of the Central Bar,
“at Féfé”,
Gilbert Angles remembers the day he learned that his mayor, then seeking a third term, was joining Matignon.
“An honor”
, launches, serious, the president of the local rugby club of the Conflent city.
"There are hundreds of them...
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