Who to replace Jean Castex who should resign in the coming days? This is the question that Emmanuel Macron will have to answer in the coming days, taking into account an imperative: that the new head of government embodies the new method and the new ambitions of the five-year term.
A man or a woman ? In the essentially male entourage of the president, we always evoke the hypothesis of the appointment of a woman to Matignon with interest, while specifying each time that it is competence that takes precedence, relates Valerie Gas, from the political service of RFI. ” We do not do a sexual casting “, even adds a close friend ofEmmanuel Macron.
The choice will therefore be made by crossing other criteria, and in particular that of this promise made by the candidate between the two rounds, to try to seduce the voters of Jean-Luc Melenchon and Yannick Jadot, the next Prime Minister will be directly in charge of ecological planning. A pledge of Emmanuel Macron’s desire to put environmental ambition at the heart of his new five-year term and to apply a new, more participatory and territorialized method of government.
Left-wing ministers to give guarantees to voters
Another parameter will come into play: the political message. After the choice of Édouard Philippe, a right-wing Prime Minister in 2017, will Emmanuel Macron go fishing on the left to give guarantees to these voters who have cast their votes on him to block Marine Le Pen? And above all, will he wait for the result of the legislative elections to decide according to the balance of power?
The equation is complicated, in the meantime, it’s a fairground for hypotheses: Élisabeth Borne, current Minister of Labour, Christine Lagarde, director of the ECB, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, or Julien Denormandie, minister of Agriculture, could be part of the cast.
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