The transfer of power between Edouard Philippe and Jean Castex, will take place this Friday at 17: 30. Also, Emmanuel Macron reportedly proposed to his ex-prime minister to muster the majority in view of the presidential election of 2022.
Summary Resignation of Edouard Philippe Reshuffle A popularity up Emmanuel Macron Biography
The transfer of power between Edouard Philippe and his successor, Jean Castex, will be held this Friday, July 3, 2020 to 17: 30. After three years at Matignon, the head of State reportedly proposed to his former I minister to work on the reconstruction of the majority in the perspective of 2022. The project is to “bring together all those who want to participate in the effort”, in particular the group Act, the Modem, a portion of the LR or the left.
the past several week, the predecessor of Jean Castex aspired to be mayor of le Havre to new”. Moreover, the municipal Council of the commune norman meets this Saturday to designate the new mayor. A maturity that will surely be played in the timing chosen by Edouard Philippe.
Edouard Philippe does not “create caps”
A desire on the part of Emmanuel Macron to make a left turn, more social, therefore, is also part of the persistent rumours and, indeed, the potential successors of Edouard Philippe mentioned everywhere in the press leave little room for doubt : Florence Parly, former of the PS and Jospin government, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the iconic minister of the quinquennium Holland, or even Laurence Tubiana, a diplomat of the left…
anyway, Edouard Philippe does not “create caps”, as did its close to the Figaro, when a minister insists on the fact that Emmanuel Macron is going to have to be diplomatic, regardless of his or her choice. “It will not he humiliates in the process, because it is a man, Edward, who has his pride…”, says this member of the government, also quoted by Le Figaro.
it Remains to know the wish of the principal, who has skilfully maintained the blur during the campaign period of the municipal. After you have declared to be a Prime minister with “full-time”, Edouard Philippe had repeated his desire to go back to the armchair of the mayor of le Havre. “My goal is to be the mayor of le Havre. If this happens very quickly, it will be very well,” he started, during the debate in the face of its competitor.
resignation coming Edouard Philippe
Edouard Philippe presented his resignation and that of his government to Emmanuel Macron, this Friday, July 3, 2020. It is a procedure of use, whenever major changes are at work among the government team. If the head of State decides to renew its confidence to the current tenant of Matignon, while the latter will be renamed to the post in the wake.
A redesign of magnitude to come
The redesign of this early summer 2020 is announced of magnitude. It could even be the change of ministers the more marked since, as Emmanuel Macron is the president. Beyond Edouard Philippe, including the position of Prime minister is indeed threatened, many adjustments are discussed. According to information from the Sunday Newspaper, not less than four ministers are concerned. There are Nicole Belloubet, Justice, whose confidences on France Inter radio early in the week ranged in the sense of a departure. “lI there is always more and better things to do, and in this sense we would like that things never stop”, throw the guards of the Seals.
The minister of Ecology, Elizabeth Terminal, the minister of Labour, Muriel Pénicaud, but also the minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, would also be on the hot seat. The latter could pay its management of the events that took place to denounce the police violence. In addition, Franck Riester, Culture, as well as the government’s spokesperson Sibeth Ndiaye could also take their bow.
Edouard Philippe, a growing popularity
the head of The government knows since some months a dramatic increase in its popularity. The French have apparently been sensitive to his management of the crisis of the Covid-19, during which Edouard Philippe was, however, very exposed. To such A point that now, a majority of French people trust him, more than to Emmanuel Macron, to “reinvent” the France as a result of this episode. It is, in any case, the result of a poll Ifop for Europe 1 and The Tribune, published on Monday, 29 June, which reveals Edouard Philippe in first place (45%) on a panel of 37 personalities tested.
there has also been his major victory at le Havre, at the municipal, going in the direction of its popularity on the rise, but there is especially this dimension of trust that continues to climb. Now, it is 43% (+ 4 points), according to a survey Elabe published on Thursday, far ahead of Emmanuel Macron and 35%. Over the last two months, not less than nine points, as the Prime minister has earned, and 16 points in the last four. Elabe also pointed to the fact that the confidence expressed towards Edouard Philippe to “effectively confront the problems facing the country” is now superior to that of Emmanuel Macron in all electorates.
Edouard Philippe-Emmanuel Macron, love lasts three years ?
apart from Francois Fillon during the quinquennium of Nicolas Sarkozy, it is the rare Prime ministers who have occupied the prime minister’s office as long. Edouard Philippe, named for Emmanuel Macron since his assumption of office in may 2017, and was then is unknown to the general public, after a past of a man in the shadows with Alain Juppé and as mayor of le Havre. For the head of State, déwilling to reinvent themselves, this reorganization may be the only window of shooting to separate Edouard Philippe, if it is his will.
Victorious at le Havre at the municipal, the head of the government has always made it clear that a return to Normandy to him siérait quite. For the president, separate a Edouard Philippe certainly popular might still do the office of a shock in public opinion and it might as well begin it serenely the small revolution at the same of the lead to the presidential election of 2022. In a government embodied by ministers rather little known to the general public, to land the first of them, after three years in office, would certainly office of electroshock.
Biography of Edouard Philippe
Prior to his appointment to the head of the government on may 15, 2017, Edouard Philippe was little known to the general public. He was born November 29, 1970 in Rouen, france (49 years old), where he spent part of his schooling. After a prépa hypokhâgne, he is a graduate of Sc. Po Paris in 1992 and then of the ENA (promotion Marc Bloch, 1995-1997). Before you commit to the RSP, the young Edouard Philippe is an activist in the Socialist Party. Quickly the young mandarin is closer to Antoine Rufenacht, mayor of le Havre from 1995 to 2010, and became director of campaign of Jacques Chirac in 2002. In 2007 Edouard Philippe, is employed in the cabinet of Alain Juppé, which is then, very briefly, minister of the Ecology, until his fall in legislative elections. Shortly after, he was appointed director of public Affairs at Areva. He left this post when he was elected mayor of le Havre in 2010. Two years later, Edouard Philippe was elected as a member of the 7th district of Seine-Maritime. Close to Alain Juppé, he is in charge of his campaign for the presidential of 2017 — prior to its disposal to the primary LR —. On 3 July 2020, it resigns of its functions of I minister. Just re-elected to the city council of le Havre (59%) , the former head of the government will certainly resume its functions as a municipal official.
The private life of Edouard Philippe
