this day when Lucie Castets became a candidate for Matignon

VIDEO – In the documentary Dissolution, story of a political earthquakebroadcast on France 2 on December 5 and now available in replay, Lucie Castets tells how she learned that she was a candidate to become Prime Minister.

After the National Assembly voted on the motion of censure on Wednesday December 4, France 2 decided to shake up its programs for the evening of Thursday December 5. The channel notably broadcast the documentary Dissolution, story of a political earthquakewhich looks back on the political events of the summer after the dissolution of the National Assembly requested by Emmanuel Macron last June. Thus, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Olivier Faure tell how they decided to choose Lucie Castets as a candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP) for Matignon.

For her part, the 37-year-old civil servant talks about how she heard the news, “on a Monday”. “I leave my office Porte d’Ivry, I get on my bike and then my phone rings. I stop. And there I see written ‘Olivier Faure’”she begins. Before continuing: “He talks to me at some length about the political situation, it’s all very strange to me… Then after a while he says to me: ‘there, we thought of you to be our Prime Minister candidate, what do you think- you?’” Olivier Faure in turn explains that she was quite surprised and questioning on the phone. “I am not one of those people who thinks every morning that they will one day become Prime Minister or President of the Republic”she specifies.

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In a video interview published on the YouTube channel There if I am thereLucie Castets reveals that she suspected that she would not be appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron. Nevertheless, she took her role as candidate to heart. “I put myself in this role because it was the role that I had been asked to play, and so in a way I found that it was a bit part of the contract or the pact, including towards left-wing voters, so I decided to take on this role of potential Prime Minister. I did it seriously, with a whole super efficient team around me”she explains. “It can happen”the mother said to herself.

Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.