The minister in charge of local authorities was, on Tuesday, the guest of Public Senate. She apologized in the afternoon. “My words hurt many of you. I deeply regret them, they were understandably inappropriate,” she wrote on Twitter.
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Caroline Cayeux, the minister responsible for local authorities, returned on Tuesday, July 12, to her past opposition to marriage for all. “I have always said that the law if it were passed, I would apply it”, she defended herself on Public Senate. “I have many friends among all these people and frankly, it is a bad trial that I am being made. And that upset me a lot.”she continued, before specifying: “And I’ve never been part of the demo for all, ever. I’ve never paraded. Let’s be clear.”
A petition calls for the departure of the “notorious LGBTQIAphobic” ministers: “It’s a bad trial that I’m being subjected to and which upset me a lot. I’ve never been part of the Manif pour tous, let things be clear”, defends himself @carolinecayeux #HelloHome pic.twitter.com/xgNqJPR1Hk
— Public Senate (@publicsenat) July 12, 2022
Caroline Cayeux’s comments were pinned on Twitter by political figures, journalists and Internet users. “‘I have a lot of friends among those people’. wow”, commented Sandrine Rousseau. The minister “insults homosexuals on television. It is serious, dangerous and prohibited”, was indignant activist Caroline De Haas. “I have many friends among all these people…”, quipped the magazine’s editor StubbornThomas Vampouille.
Caroline Cayeux finally apologized on Tuesday afternoon. “My words hurt many of you. I deeply regret them, they were naturally inappropriate”, she wrote on Twitter. “Equal rights must always be a priority of our action.”