The resignation of the government was announced by mistake on Saturday morning May 14 on its official website, franceinfo learned. The site is managed by the Government Information Service (GIS). It’s about a “handling error on the computer side, this should not have happened“, indicates the government to France Télévisions.
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In a message published on the official government website, which franceinfo was able to consult, one could read “Prime Minister Jean Castex presented the resignation of his Government to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron“.
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This page, which remained visible to the public for more than an hour on Saturday morning, has since been deleted. It is now marked “error 403 – access denied“.
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Since then, the government has provided more details on this error, to franceinfo. “The government.fr website has a ‘redesign’ mode ready to be activated in all circumstances“. The government also explains that “the web page found on social networks is the page that will be displayed when the ‘reshuffle’ mode is activated on D-day“. The government also confirms that “since the report, the page has been dereferenced and unpublished“.”Only resignation press releases are authentic. As far as we know, there are no changes planned today.“, concludes the government source.
In 2009, a precedent also took place under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. At the time, the official Matignon website had briefly announced in August the appointment of three new ministers before hastily withdrawing the information.
The names of UMP deputy Axel Poniatowski, PRG (Radical Left Party) Paul Giacobbi and UMP spokesman Frédéric Lefebvre, often quoted in the press at the time as part of a possible reshuffle, appeared briefly on the page detailing the plan of the Matignon website.
Nearly 20 days after the second round of the presidential election, and while this Saturday May 14 officially marks the first day of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term, the Head of State has still not named his next Prime Minister. . Since his re-election three weeks ago, the president has been making the suspense last over the announcement of the new government. He said Monday that he had chosen his future Prime Minister, but without saying who.
For now, the government of Jean Castex has still not resigned while Emmanuel Macron’s second term officially began this Saturday. The Prime Minister was to go to the Vatican tomorrow Sunday, but in the end Jean Castex will stay in France: Emmanuel Macron goes to Abu Dhabi on Sunday to pay tribute to the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who died Friday at the age 73 years old.