New look for a new mandate? If he is re-elected, Emmanuel Macron could review the number of his troops. Indeed, its Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Tuesday that he would resign, as well as his government, “in the days which follow” a possible re-election of the outgoing president on Sunday.
Asked about France Inter to find out if he would remain Prime Minister until the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, he replied that “everything depends on the fate of the ballot boxes on Sunday”, but that he is “one of those who think that a new impetus after the re-election of the president must be found”.
“Extremely mobilized”
“I am among those who strongly hope that President Emmanuel Macron will be re-elected on Sunday,” he said. “After this re-election, in the days that follow, as tradition dictates, I will present my resignation and that of the government to the President of the Republic,” he explained.
He said he was “extremely mobilized” for the time being on the eve of the second round of the presidential election on April 24, for which the polls give the outgoing president the winner against the far-right candidate, but with a smaller lead than during the 2017 presidential election.
“Nothing is played”
According to opinion polls, the outgoing president would collect 53 to 55.5% of the votes cast, against 44.5 to 47% for Marine Le Pen. Emmanuel Macron emerged victorious in 2017 with 66% of the vote against 34% for the far-right candidate.
“Nothing is decided and we should above all not draw” from the estimates advanced by the polls “the idea that the election is folded, that the match is folded. It is not” and “we must convince (the French) that Emmanuel Macron’s program is the best for France and for them”, insisted Jean Castex.