With Lucie Castets, the left thinks about the next move, Matignon or not

2024-08-26 03:21:01

The candidate of the New Popular Front for the position of Prime Minister, Lucie Castets, is surrounded by the representatives of the LFI Hadrien Clouet and Manuel Bompard and the European vice Manon Aubry, during the summer academy of the party, in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (Drôme), August. 24, 2024. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP

The “rebels” had promised him that he would be well received, and they kept their promise. Lucie Castets, leftist candidate for Matignon, was not disappointed by her trip to Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, in Drôme, Saturday August 24, in Amfis, the summer universities of La France insoumise (LFI), where The group has prepared a rock star program for him. It is the third activist shower of the week, after the Ecologist summer days in Tours on Wednesday and the French Communist Party summer academies in Montpellier on Friday. In Trips, he even tried to speak at a meeting for the first time in front of 2,000 to 3,000 people, without incident.

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Saturday, in Drôme, in front of a full room, the 37-year-old mayor participated in a friendly question-and-answer game for an hour and a half of his two LFI colleagues, MEP Manon Aubry and the deputies for Haute-Garonne Hadrien Clouet, maintaining humor, irony, or becoming serious when it comes to describing your program. “Lucie Castets in Matignon, otherwise Macron’s resignation”singing the room.

The New Popular Front (NFP) candidate, however, is only in front of an established audience. On Friday morning, in the Elysée, in front of Emmanuel Macron, the game is more difficult. For ninety minutes, the applicant from Matignon has been subject to questions from the Head of State. The president of the environmental group in the National Assembly, Cyrielle Chatelain, described an exchange “High quality”especially on institutional and international issues. “The first face-to-face of coexistence”additional membership for Isère. Like many participants, Lucie Castets fully accepts the role of Prime Minister. Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, and his environmental colleague, Marine Tondelier, both think that “Emmanuel Macron was surprised”.

“People love you”

Since her appointment by the NFP on July 23, Lucie Castets has not worked. He canceled his vacation and spent his summer working on the program, on his own. On Saturday, there was nothing left of the skepticism and robotic vocabulary of the first interviews. “You will see, politics is violence”warns Manon Aubry, who met him when he was at Oxfam. “I will learn”answered the novice. “Decision”, “stability” in the words at the top, on the left, to describe Lucie Castets, among the highest numbers.