Lucie Castets, NFP candidate for Matignon, makes her media coming out

“I want to say who I am”Lucie Castets, candidate of the New Popular Front at Matignon, announced that she was married to a woman and mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old child in an interview with Paris Match published Tuesday, August 6. If she is appointed by Emmanuel Macron, she would become the second openly homosexual person to hold the post of Prime Minister, after Gabriel Attal.

The 37-year-old senior civil servant, still unknown a month ago, is seeking to crack the armor with her magazine interview. “I want to find a balance between protecting my family, my wife and our child, and saying who I am.”she explained. The economist at Paris City Hall reveals having received “messages from far-right haters” on this subject.

Lucie Castets also responds to the criticisms she anticipates about her university career, and her time at the ENA, the school of the elite. “I have nothing to prove. I am comfortable in my own skin, people will discover that, or not. ENA graduate, that is part of my reality”she says.

While she does not have the favor of Emmanuel Macron, she also estimated in an interview with South Westthat the appointment of LR Xavier Bertrand as Prime Minister would constitute a “aberration” given the weight of his party in the Assembly and his career. She said she was ready for her part to “find compromises and work, text by text, with the parliamentarians of the Assembly and the Senate”.