Numerous discussions, but not with the occupant of Matignon. The former candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP) to become Prime Minister Lucie Castets affirmed Friday, September 13 at La Fête de l’Humanité, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, in Essonne, that she was not able to speak with Gabriel Attal, during her discussions with a view to joining the government.
“The only person who refused to speak to me informally on the phone during the summer was Gabriel Attal,” Lucie Castets assured journalists from L’Humanité.
“It is important to note that. It is not against him personally, it is simply that this hand was not extended or that this hand that I extended was not received,” said the woman who had been received at the end of August at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron before being dismissed.
“The hand was not extended to us” by the president
The unsuccessful candidate for Matignon deplored, while mentioning Gabriel Attal, that the NFP was accused of not having been able to reach out to other political forces with a view to entering the government and of not letting the RN play the role of arbiter.
“By placing the responsibility on the back of the New Popular Front, by saying: ‘it is you who did not want to seek an agreement’, we are diverting attention from the fact that the hand was not extended to us by the previous government, by the presidential camp,” she believes.
“It is absolutely false to say that the NFP has not reached out, that it has not been able to compromise,” she insists.
“We are able to find agreements”
Lucie Castets assures that on the contrary, her camp has not stopped dialoguing with other political forces. “From the first day, all the interventions that I was led to give (…), I said it, we will seek agreements text by text, we will build these agreements in Parliament”, she assures.
“We even wrote it to all the parliamentarians of this country with all the group presidents in the National Assembly and the Senate,” she recalls.
“It is interesting to note that, on subjects that are not usually the hobbyhorses of elected officials who are not from the NFP, we are able to find agreements. (…) For example, Liot, which is a rather right-wing, centre-right group, agrees to increase the tax on financial transactions,” she says, before deploring: “Emmanuel Macron did not want to hear that we were ready to work with this group on tax revenues.”
Lucie Castets also called for the NFP to “continue to exist”, while criticising the appointment of Michel Barnier, from the Republicans, to Matignon, assuring that she felt “anger, disappointment, a little feeling of revolt” at the announcement of his accession to the head of the government.
- BFMTV.com
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