Lucie Castets almost gave a new direction to her career: becoming a deputy for Grenoble, replacing the elected representative of La France insoumise (LFI) Hugo Prevost, accused of sexual violence, and who had announced his upcoming resignation. The candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP) for Matignon finally gave up competing for this partial legislative session which must be held in the first constituency of Isère by January 15, 2025.
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Friday October 18, she announced to AFP that “the conditions of [sa] application[étaient] not been reunited »considering however that “the person matters little and [qu’il] We must do everything so that the left wins this constituency again,” which extends from Grenoble to part of its northern suburbs. “What was offered to me did not allow me, in my opinion, to continue to act as a link for the left”justified the 37-year-old senior civil servant.
It’s been a long week since the Parisian from Normandy hesitated to take the step of universal suffrage. François Hollande, with whom she speaks regularly, made her understand that she did not really have a choice: without an official position, it would be difficult for her to remain the incarnation of the consensus of the union of the left.
Concession of Jean-Luc Mélenchon
The main obstacle, which led to her renunciation, was the group in which she should have sat. La France insoumise had warned: the constituency being reserved for it, according to the NFP agreement, Lucie Castets should absolutely join the “rebellious” group and choose, as a bonus, an LFI substitute. But Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement, which only has 71 deputies (compared to 66 for the Socialist Party, PS), was paralyzed by the idea of losing a seat.
Friday October 18, during a public meeting in Cahors, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who obviously did not want to be accused of having sabotaged the candidate’s candidacy for Matignon, affirmed that the movement was “his disposition”. “We understand that she was chosen because there was consensus and she wants to stay in this role, that suits us,” he said, before making a concession, that of allowing her to sit, as “related”, in the same way as Aymeric Caron, deputy for Paris, who has his own party, Ecological Revolution for the Living, or that… the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis, Jérôme Legavre, of the Independent Workers’ Party, the Trotskyist party which has become a satellite of LFI. The founder of LFI also suggested that he run in the Ardennes, where the RN deputy Flavien Termet has just resigned…
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