COMMUNICATION OF APPEAL. A meeting with the 37-year-old senior civil servant who was nominated by the New Popular Front to become Prime Minister. But Emmanuel Macron still refuses to name.
The sky is clearing a little this July 22 over Paris. It’s noon and Lucie Castets, the city’s finance director, is riding her bike to meet a friend when her cell phone rings. On the phone, the leader of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure. “We thought of you for Matignon, for your commitment to public services and your profile,” he says matter-of-factly. “I told him he could confirm my name, thinking there were others on the table,” the thirty-year-old told Paris Match. He called me the next day: the forces of the New Popular Front (NFP) had agreed. » His name will be announced at 7pm, but Emmanuel Macron is dismissing the hypothesis, postponing the post of Prime Minister until mid-August.
Two weeks later, Lucie Castets maintains the pressure, increasing the number of visits and media appearances, more or less under control. While the right, the extreme right and the Macronists represent him as a Parisian technocrat, jointly responsible for the debt of the capital (8 billion euros).
“The debt is not a problem when we compare it to the debt of the State,” she defends. The city has the best ratings for a community, given by rating agencies. For the rest, I didn’t grow up in Paris. I was born in Caen and left there at 18. No one was a high-ranking official in my family. In high school, I was already passionate about political and economic issues. I knew I wanted to work in public service Finance, wants, if she is appointed, to strengthen the workers in schools, hospitals and civil justice, which will be the daily dispute.
Big fan of surfing
She is currently choosing the first NFP measures that are likely to vote with a majority, in the Senate, with her hand extended for coalitions, but not with the National Rally. Is he accused of nurturing an imaginary image? She is involved in a long distance race for Matignon, as an experienced athlete. “At school, I participated in all the cross-country races. I played tennis for ten years, handball, taekwondo. I like physical exercise. » She loved surfing, and she also traveled the world while studying. A trip that is different from the image of the Enarque always with his nose in his files. “I have nothing to prove. I look good in my sneakers, people will find out, or not. Énarque is part of my reality. » He doesn’t have enough time today to have more fun. She is married and the mother of a two and a half year old child. “I want to find a balance between protecting my family, my wife and our child, and saying who I am,” she tells Paris Match. It still seems important to me today . »
She keeps in mind the comments against Gabriel Attal when he also revealed his homosexuality or the messages from “farther haters” that she says she receives on the subject this already. Would she have been a target? “Macron appoints her at the beginning of the school year, with social pressure, someone close to us wants to believe it. And to respect the institutional logic: political color came first in the legislative elections. » If this happens, she, who has never been elected, will have to control angry political figures. “I feel completely capable of running a government,” she returns. And I get my validity from the nomination by the NFP. » What if they take it away? “So there is no one left who can embody the unity of the left. » A Castets or chaos?
2024-08-07 05:38:18
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