Macron Appoints Jean Castex As New Prime Minister of France

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Jean Castex as the successor to retired Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.

 

Insiders already tipped the former official as a possible successor to Philippe, who resigned with his government on Friday.

55-year-old Castex was recently in charge of easing the French measures against the new coronavirus. Previously, he was a member of the parliament of the Pyrénées-Orientales and Languedoc-Roussillon regions and was mayor.

He was also chairman of the National Sports Agency. Until this year, Castex was a member of the centre-right LR party and before that of its predecessor, the UMP.

Castex has to assemble a new cabinet. This should, among other things, give substance to the environmental and climate reforms that Macron announced earlier this week.

Macron did that after a sensitive defeat in the municipal elections on Sunday. In addition, his liberal party LREM lost many voters to the green EELV.

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