At her first meeting, Lucie Castets calls on Emmanuel Macron to “respect the choice of the French”

Lucie Castets maintains her line. From the ecologists’ summer university in Tours (Indre-et-Loire), Thursday August 22, the candidate of the New Popular Front for the post of Prime Minister called on Emmanuel Macron to “respect the choice of the French”during his very first speech. “Whatever Emmanuel Macron decides, we are not going to stop there”she added. The President of the Republic has invited all political forces to the Elysée starting tomorrow in order to conduct consultations with a view to appointing a new government.

During her speech, the representative of the left first reminded the activists of her fears on the evening of June 9, the evening of the dissolution of the Assembly by Emmanuel Macron. “I thought that the extreme right could really come to power in France”she laments. Lucie Castets assured that the NFP “is not just a change of political direction. It is also a change of method. And it will have to be radical”She promises that the left forces

“will restore a central place to Parliament. And we will give it back the time to debate and exchange”.

The NFP candidate also hopes that the future government will “renewed confidence in local elected officials (…) by betting on the intelligence, autonomy and creativity of those working in the field”She denounced a “fragmented” country and middle classes that “become poorer”. “Another momentum is possible”she assured. “Today, it must be said, even part of the right seems to be coming out of denial: we hear less and less people dismissing or minimizing the climate crisis.”underlines Lucie Castets. While she welcomes this awareness, she believes that “To make the ecological shift a reality, we must remove two crucial obstacles: austerity and social injustice”.