Jean Castex is back on the political scene.
Three weeks after his departure from Matignon, the former prime minister appeared alongside Gabriel Attal during the latter's campaign meeting in Issy-les-Moulineaux on Wednesday evening.
The new Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts is campaigning for his re-election in the 10th district of Hauts-de-Seine.
"
I couldn't say no
" to Gabriel Attal's proposal, said Jean Castex, hailing "
one of the most talented politicians of his generation
".
For his first public appearance since his resignation, the former head of government said he had discovered in Gabriel Attal a "
very talented spokesperson
“, when he worked with the Prime Minister, from July 2020 to last May.
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“
I have only one message: you have an excellent MP.
Keep
it, ”he addressed to LREM supporters gathered in the gymnasium of Halle Christiane Guillaume.
Before him, Gabriel Attal was also full of praise for the former prime minister, alongside whom he says he "
learned a lot
" at Matignon.
"
If there is one who fought,
it was Jean Castex
," said Gabriel Attal.
The youngest minister of the Fifth Republic, if he calls himself a "
macronist
", went so far as to declare, admiringly: "
I also feel very much Castexian
".
The “deadly” project of Nupes
The display of the coalition candidate
Together
alongside the former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy is not trivial in this constituency long held by the right.
André Santini, former UDF then UMP deputy who occupied the seat from 1988 to 2017, was also present to support the Macronist candidate.
"
Everyone knows that we have not always been allies
," Gabriel Attal was also amused.
The agreement was not in good shape between the mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux and the young Secretary of State, after Gabriel Attal had beaten his foal in 2017, the UDI candidate Jérémy Coste, who has since become the head of Minister's office.
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This public meeting was also intended to shake up the red flag a little more around the Nupes project, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Gabriel Attal denounced a "
liberticidal
" program, "
bans on all floors
", "
deadly
", accusing the coalition gathered around the rebellious leader of wanting insidiously "
to leave the European Union
" through "
convoluted
" terms
such as "
disobedience to treaties
".
“
Who can imagine for a moment that we will face the challenges that await us without Europe?
“, added in turn Jean Castex, presaging “
the ruin and the forfeiture of France
".
The Prime Minister castigated "
a speech of regression
" on the part of "
the extremes
" between an "
extreme right whose program it is difficult to see
" and a "
left whose center, caught up by Mélenchon, has moved dangerously in defiance of its values and its history.
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