“I am going to end my duties as director of finance for the city of Paris,” the New Popular Front candidate for Matignon announced on BFMTV and RMC on Thursday.
:quality(50)/2023/07/06/64a68815cd1a7_placeholder-36b69ec8.png)
Published
Reading time: 1 min
:quality(50)/2024/08/29/080-hl-nguyonnet-2494168-66d03979ba0b4398281639.jpg)
Her political career will not end with Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to appoint her to Matignon. The candidate of the New Popular Front for Matignon, Lucie Castets, announced on Thursday, August 29, that she will “put an end to [ses] functions” at the Paris city hall, in order to continue to embody the alliance of left-wing parties. “I will end my duties as Director of Finance for the City of Paris,” Lucie Castets said on BFMTV and RMC, specifying that she “will not resign from public service” but that she “considers [se] “put on hold”.
Paris City Hall said, without further comment, that, “as Lucie Castets indicated, the terms of his departure are the subject of discussions with the City.” Her decision is imposed by the imminent end of her summer vacation, during which she was designated by the NFP and made numerous media appearances, which her status as a senior civil servant subject to the duty of reserve would no longer have allowed her to do as of next week. Supported by the “strong hope that was born from the vote of the French” in the July legislative elections, she now intends “put all [ses] forces to preserve this union of the left” came out on top, but far from an absolute majority in the Assembly.
A situation which justified Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to appoint her to Matignon at the start of the week. “I always feel supported by the four forces of the NFP,” she assured, including by the Socialist Party, which is divided on the hypothesis of another personality from the left, like the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
“Of course there are different positions in the PS, it’s healthy, it’s the life of a party,” Lucie Castets put into perspective, stating that she did not have “no personal problem with Bernard Cazeneuve”cited among the possible options for Matignon. However, she doubts that the former socialist Prime Minister will be “able to carry out another policy” than that of the head of state.
