The new Prime minister, Jean Castex said Friday, wants "open dialogue" to develop " a new social covenant ", demonstrating thus a method that it will specify in its policy statement expected " by the middle of next week ".

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Mr. Castex, named Friday as a replacement for Edouard Philippe, has said they want to " move quickly to appoint the government as soon as possible ". Interviewed on TF1 to know if this could be before Monday, he replied : "we will do everything to ".