“I consider that the conditions for my candidacy were not met for this partial,” declared the New Popular Front candidate for Matignon.
Published on 18/10/2024 21:50
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The New Popular Front cannot agree. Lucie Castets will ultimately not run in the legislative by-election in Isère. “I am not going. I consider that the conditions of my candidacy have not been met for this partial”she declared, Friday October 18 to AFP. The NFP candidate for Matignon nevertheless believes that “the person does not matter and (that) everything must be done so that the left wins this constituency again” straddling Grenoble and part of its northern suburbs, where La France insoumise planned to support it.
“What was offered to me did not allow me, in my opinion, to continue to act as a link for the left,” explained the 37-year-old senior civil servant, who did not wish to sit within the LFI group in the Assembly. Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, on the contrary, made it a non-negotiable condition for granting him the nomination and running for the seat left vacant by the resignation of Hugo Prévost.
The young 25-year-old rebel, who took the place of former Macronist minister Olivier Véran in July, handed in his mandate last week after accusations of “serious acts of a sexual nature” committed in particular when he led the Student Union union, close to LFI. His departure has started the countdown to the by-election, which must be held within three months, and the negotiations within the parties. Starting with LFI, which had obtained this constituency as part of the founding agreement of the NFP just after the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9 by President Emmanuel Macron.
