“Democracy means nothing to the president,” says Lucie Castets

“Democracy means nothing to the president and I find that extremely dangerous”castigated Lucie Castets on France Inter on Tuesday, August 27, whose candidacy as Prime Minister was rejected on Monday by Emmanuel Macron. The senior civil servant, chosen by the New Popular Front, confided that she felt “anger” when the President of the Republic announced that he refused to install him at Matignon.

“The president wants to be president of the Republic, prime minister and party leader all at the same time. The institutions cannot function like this, it is not satisfactory for anyone, it is not respectful of the French people or of democracy.”believes Lucie Castets. In a statement published on Monday, Emmanuel Macron ruled out the option of a New Popular Front government, which nevertheless came out on top in the second round of the legislative elections in July, in the name of “institutional stability”.

“It is a denial of democracy”she continues. “The role of the President of the Republic will be to appoint a Prime Minister who comes from the majority group in the National Assembly, and then for this majority group to seek agreements with the others. That is how democracy works, the President cannot form the government of his dreams.“, snaps Lucie Castets.

Lucie Castets recalls that it was the head of state who decided “before summer” to dissolve the National Assembly, “without consultation”The ENA graduate specifies that despite the precedents “very high levels of abstention”at the time of the early legislative elections, the voters “turned out in large numbers to the polls and put the New Popular Front in the lead, without an absolute majority, but with a relative majority.”