He would have liked to end this day in Rome to represent France at the canonization of Charles de Foucauld.
“
The pope
had spoken to me about it when I came to meet him in October, and as soon as the date was known, I applied,”
he confided a few hours before this trip.
But, one last time, Jean Castex experienced that the wishes of the Prime Minister gave way to presidential constraints.
Macron leaving for the Emirates, he had to stay in Paris, and let his Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, go to Rome in his place.
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In addition to the splendours of Saint-Pierre square, Castex wanted to be prime minister until the last quarter of an hour.
Moreover, Thursday again, he went to the Vaucluse to see the damage of the drought.
"Mr.
Land” to the end.
Leaving Matignon, he does so without hesitation, but not without sadness.
His departure, he had pleaded several times before Emmanuel Macron.
As soon as the president was re-elected and the...
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