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Will Macron’s new sidekick help him get re-elected?

Is France’s latest prime minister just another fall guy?

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

It is just over three years since the election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of France. All of Gaul is united against him. All? No! From a village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a remote corner of Occitanie, Jean Castex, the irréductible mayor of the tiny commune of Prades (population 6,124), has emerged in a puff of smoke to become the President’s new prime minister.

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