Lucie Castets announced on Friday that she would not run in the partial legislative elections in Isère.
The NFP candidate for Matignon believes that “the conditions have not been met”.
Lucie Castets throws in the towel. Expected to represent the left during the partial legislative elections organized in the 1st constituency of Isère, the candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP) for Matignon will ultimately not appear in this election. “I am not going. I consider that the conditions of my candidacy have not been met for this partial”she told AFP on Friday. “What was offered to me did not allow me, in my opinion, to continue to act as a link for the left”she adds.
Nevertheless, “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, asserts the 37-year-old senior civil servant. In this case, the Isère federation of the Socialist Party announced the investiture of Amandine Germain, following an internal consultation. The training had indicated, a few hours earlier, that “in the event that Lucie Castets were ultimately to be the representative of all the components of the NFP, the Socialist Party and its candidate would obviously put themselves at her disposal to support her and lead this difficult campaign.” Ultimately it won’t be the case.
According to AFP, Lucie Castets did not wish to sit within the LFI group in the National 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, overwhelmed by accusations of “serious acts of a sexual nature”.
