Lucie Castets announces that she will “end” her functions at Paris City Hall, to continue her fight within the NFP

In order to continue to embody the alliance of left-wing parties, through which it is “still feels supported”the joint candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP) for Matignon, Lucie Castets, announced that she intended “put an end to [ses] functions of director of finance for the city of Paris”, Thursday August 29 on BFM-TV/RMC.

“This is not a resignation since I am a public official, but I am withdrawing from my position.”she continued, saying that “The practical arrangements are still under discussion” but that she “considers [se] make available ».

This decision was imposed on Lucie Castets as her summer vacation approached. In recent months, she was designated by the NFP as a contender for Matignon and has since made herself known publicly, multiplying media appearances and trips. But her status as a senior civil servant subject to the duty of reserve would no longer have allowed her to pursue such a political commitment as of next week.

“Put all [ses] forces to preserve the union”

Carried by the “strong hope that was born from the vote of the French” In the July legislative elections, where the NFP alliance came out on top, she intends “put all [ses] forces to preserve this union of the left”But the absence of a majority for the NFP and the threat of immediate censure of a left-wing government brandished by the central bloc, the right and the extreme right justified Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to appoint her as prime minister on Monday, following a first round of consultations.

“We have always said that we have gone beyond ‘the whole program, nothing but the program’. (…) We acknowledge that we have a relative majority, not an absolute one.”said the senior official, who accused the President of the Republic of having “caricatured the position of the NFP”car “he doesn’t want to leave [la gauche] to govern, nor to convince, nor to seek agreements, then [qu’elle] could have done it”.

However, “I always feel supported by the four forces of the NFP”said Mr.^me Castets. Including by the Socialist Party, she assured, while the latter is divided on the hypothesis of an appointment to Matignon of another personality from the left, like the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

“Of course there are different positions in the PS, it’s healthy, it’s the life of a party”she put it into perspective, saying she had not “no personal problem with Bernard Cazeneuve”that she ” estimated “ and that she “respect”while doubting that it is “able to carry out another policy” than that of the head of state.

Lucie Castets also confirmed that she would go to Blois, where the Socialist Party is launching its summer university on Thursday until Saturday, especially “to greet the PS activists”In recent days, the candidate for the post of Prime Minister has already visited the summer universities of the other components of the NFP, the ecologists in Tours, the “insoumis” in Chateauneuf-sur-Isère, and the communists in Montpellier.

As for the question of his presence in the ranks of the mobilization on September 7 against “Emmanuel Macron’s coup”which La France Insoumise is calling for, but not the socialists, to join, Lucie Castets declared that she had not “no problem with the idea of ​​demonstrating”and that she would do it that day « yes [elle est] available “.