This Saturday, May 14, the Matignon website mistakenly displayed a page announcing the resignation of the Jean Castex government. His entourage quickly denied the information and Matignon indicated technical problems.
This error comes as the announcement of the new government is slow in coming and is the subject of all speculation. Here is what we could read for more than an hour on the Matignon website this Saturday: “ Prime Minister Jean Castex presented the resignation of his government to Emmanuel Macron. »
But none of that happened. The web page displayed by mistake on government.fr is “ regularly used in case of redesign. It’s been prepared for a while now. It’s a ghost page that came up in Google searches. The Government Information Service has contacted the search engine to rectify “says Matignon to theAFP.
” Since the report, the page has been dereferenced and unpublished. Only press releases are authentic. As far as we know, there are no changes planned today. “, concludes the entourage of the Prime Minister.
We will therefore have to wait a little longer to know the name of the future Prime Minister. A change that should not occur before Monday. This Sunday, Jean Castex will be traveling to Rome and on the press release, it is clearly stated that he will go there as Prime Minister.
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(and with AFP)