While Edouard Philippe announced his resignation this morning, the Elysée has just announced to AFP which will take up the torch at the time of reshuffle.
It is unknown to the general public. However, it is Jean Castex who will be the new prime minister in anticipation of the reshuffle of the Emmanuel Macron government. He had written the government's deconfinement plan and is a local right-wing elected official. 55 years old, this is the one we nicknamed "mister deconfinement". Jean Castex is also a politician close to former President Nicolas Sakozy since he was Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic from 2010 until the end of his mandate. It was at the end of April that he was responsible, by Emmanuel Macron, for managing the deconfinement plan with Edouard Philippe.
Since 2008, he has been mayor of the town of Prades in the Pyrénées Orientales. He was re-elected in the last municipal elections with more than 75% of the votes. In addition, he was director of cabinet for Xavier Bertrand at the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor. In addition, the emergency physician Patrick Pelloux had to deal with him during a strike movement in 2005 and is quite satisfied with his meeting with him: "He's a great guy! A man of state. A sense of work, respectful of people, always attentive. "
A few hours before the resignation of Edouard Philippe, Emmanuel Macron spoke about the man who was his prime minister for almost three years: "I made the choice, in 2017, to take by my side a man who did not campaign and who was not in my political training, who was in the same process of opening and overcoming the cleavages traditional. What we have managed to do for three years, with great confidence and coordination, is unprecedented, contrary to what has been written. " he explained to Parisian.