About sixty people, including elected LFI and EELV, gathered on Tuesday August 2 near the National Assembly in Paris against the continued government of Caroline Cayeux.
Elected officials LFI and Europe Ecology the Greens demonstrate near the National Assembly against the continued government of @carolinecayeux and other ministers who in the past have made comments deemed homophobic @franceinfo pic.twitter.com/d4OfyrPZRZ
— Victoria Koussa (@victoriakoussa) August 2, 2022
The demonstrators contested the retention in government of the Minister in charge of Territorial Communities, as well as other ministers who in the past have made remarks deemed homophobic and “LGBTphobic positions”. The collective implicates in particular Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armies, and Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition.
For Sandrine Rousseau, Green MP, the pressure must be kept up: “Did you see one quitting in the lot? I didn’t.” But it is above all the silence of the majority that is criticized by the co-president of the environmental group in the Assembly, Julien Bayou: “Some LREM deputies look at their pumps when we talk to them about these issues. I salute the few who have dared to speak, like Clément Beaune, but there are too few of them.”
“In truth, all the benches of the hemicycle, except perhaps the fachos and the deputies of the National Rally, should be gathered here to say that these remarks are unacceptable.”
Julien Bayou, ecologist MPat franceinfo
Do not let go is also the watchword of environmental and LGBT activist Jean-Marie Hupel: it was he who called for mobilization on Tuesday. “There were statements that shocked us, a lot of people talked about it two or three weeks agohe explains. But you know how the news works: it goes down, and then it goes a bit into oblivion.
With the deputies #LFI #NUPES we will be present at the rally to demand the resignation of #Cayeux following his homophobic remarks on #These people
Faced with the constant contempt of the government, we also demand a real public health policy in the face of the #Monkeypox. pic.twitter.com/gZ6znnkIwJ
— Danielle Simonnet (@SimonnetDeputee) August 2, 2022
In 2013, Caroline Cayeux criticized the opening of marriage to same-sex couples. Shortly after entering government and faced with an emerging controversy over these 2013 statements, the minister assured “to regret” these words “stupid”. “She made unbearable comments calling us ‘those people’, then saying that she had friends among ‘those people’, and then more or less maintaining those comments, then apologizing. , making com”details Jean-Marie Hupel. For him, these excuses are a way for the government to stifle the controversy.
“The ministers, who defended her, told us ‘Oh well, she apologized, now the chapter is closed, we are moving on’. It is not up to them to decide whether we move on. something else or not!”
Jean Marie Hupelat franceinfo
In a call to demonstrate published in the magazine Têtu, the signatories consider that these “apologies” are not sincere, recalls France Bleu Picardie. They write that “the LGBT+ community cannot accept Madame Cayeux’s apologies: the damage is done, and homophobic remarks are not a matter of public opinion but of criminal law”.