French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe resigned from his post on Friday amid a reorganization of President Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Jean-Michel MacronTrump insulted the UK in May, calling Germany’s Merkel “stupid” on calls: The Hill’s Morning Report – COVID-19 alarms rise; Trump under fire on Russia Feehery: the more radicals try to eliminate the story, the more the president seeks to repeat it MOREThe cabinet will bring in new leaders as the country recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.
Philippe is being replaced by Jean Castex, a prominent local official and mayor who helped successfully remove France from its coronavirus blockade, according to the New York Times. Philippe was also mayor of a small town when Macron appointed him.
“I would have to make decisions to lead the new way,” Macron said in an interview with the French media this week. “These are new goals of independence, reconstruction, reconciliation, and new methods to implement.”
Castex was an advisor to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. You will be assigned the task of forming a government as the country continues to bear the economic cost of the coronavirus outbreak.
Macron is reportedly trying to distance himself from Philippe, the most popular member of his cabinet who has voted higher than the president himself recently, after several losses in municipal elections this week for the president’s centrist party.
Replacing a prime minister under a president is common in French politics, and Macron still has 2 years left in his five-year term. The French president is expected to replace more cabinet posts soon.
In France, the president, who is voted by the French electorate, appoints the prime minister and other cabinet members, who are accountable to parliament.
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