Lucie Castets was about to take a new direction in her career: becoming a deputy for Grenoble, replacing the elected representative of France Insoumise (LFI) Hugo Prevost, accused of sexual violence, and who had announced his upcoming resignation. The candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP) for Matignon finally resigned from competing in this partial legislative session that must be held in the first constituency of Isère before January 15, 2025.
On Friday, October 18, he announced to AFP that “the conditions of [sa] application[étaient] they have not met »considering however that “the person does not matter and [qu’il] “We must do everything possible so that the left wins this constituency again.” stretching from Grenoble to part of its northern suburbs. “What they offered me did not allow me, in my opinion, to continue acting as a liaison for the left”justified the 37-year-old senior official.
A long week has passed since the Norman Parisian hesitated to take the step of universal suffrage. François Hollande, with whom he speaks regularly, made him understand that he really had no choice: without an official position, it would be difficult for him to remain the embodiment of the consensus of the union of the left.
Award by Jean-Luc Mélenchon
The main obstacle that led her to resign was the group in which she should have sat. Rebellious France had warned: since the constituency is reserved for her, according to the NFP agreement, Lucie Castets should absolutely join the “rebel” group and elect, as an additional benefit, a replacement from the LFI. But Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement, which only has 71 deputies (compared to 66 for the Socialist Party, PS), was paralyzed by the idea of losing a seat.
On Friday, October 18, during a public meeting in Cahors, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who evidently did not want to be accused of having sabotaged the candidacy of the Matignon candidate, stated that the movement was “his disposition.” “We understand that she was chosen because there was consensus and she wants to remain in this role, that suits us,” He said, before making a concession, that of allowing him to sit, as “related”, in the same way as Aymeric Caron, deputy for Paris, who has his own party, Ecological Revolution for the Living, or that… the elected representative of Seine- Saint-Denis, Jérôme Legavre, of the Independent Workers Party, a Trotskyist party that has become a satellite of the LFI. The founder of LFI also suggested appearing in the Ardennes, where the RN deputy Flavien Termet has just resigned…
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