The Xavier Bertrand hypothesis at Matignon is an “aberration”, says Lucie Castets

The senior official also criticised the ministerial record of the President of Hauts-de-France.

“How can you appoint a Prime Minister who does not have a majority and who only represents himself?”says Lucie Castets in an interview on Tuesday, August 6, in the daily newspaper South WestThe name of Xavier Bertrand, president of Hauts-de-France, regularly comes up as a possible leader of a “national emergency government”which would go from the right to certain left-wing personalities, in the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly.

“Then, Xavier Bertrand, it’s the weakening of hospital funding, a massive reduction in beds, the explosion in the construction of private nursing homes, an unfair pension reform”asserts Lucie Castets, in reference to her past ministerial responsibilities. “While the presidential camp has just been severely sanctioned, this Bertrand hypothesis is, from a democratic point of view, an aberration”she hammers home. The Republican Right (ex-LR) has 47 deputies out of 577 seats, but remains at the center of the game through its additional capacity.

The 37-year-old senior civil servant decided to make several trips during the summer and give interviews to various media in order to make the French people better acquainted with her political options, but also her personality. She was totally unknown to the general public when the left-wing alliance proposed her name for Matignon on July 23.

In an interview with Paris Match published on Tuesday evening, she thus decides to reveal some details of her private life, in particular her homosexuality. “I want to find a balance between protecting my family, my wife and our child, and saying who I am” she says. “It still seems important to me today”she adds, while the weekly specifies that the couple’s child is two and a half years old.