Caroline Cayeux: after her inappropriate remarks, the minister apologizes to one of her colleagues

The government of Elisabeth Borne is torn after the words of Caroline Cayeux. Invited Tuesday, July 12 on the antenna of Public Senate, the Minister of Territorial Communities caused a lively controversy. She explained to maintain her remarks made in 2013 “on marriage for all and adoption for same-sex couples, described as reform of whim and design that goes against nature”. To justify herself, the former senator Les République specified that she had “many friends among all these people”. An expression that greatly displeased his colleague, Clément Beaune. On the set of LCI this Wednesday, July 13, the minister delegate in charge of transport denounced the “extremely hurtful words” by Caroline Cayeux. “I’m one of those people. he added. I’m not saying this as an individual, I’m saying it out of political conviction: for the fight for equality, against extremes and for the values ​​that are close to my heart.”

Faced with the outcry, Caroline Cayeux came out of silence in the columns of the Parisian this Friday, July 15. “If I can’t deny having made them, obviously I wouldn’t use them again and regret them. I understand that these stupid and clumsy words could have hurt so much, assured the Minister of Territorial Communities. I would like here to renew all my most sincere apologies because they do not reflect my thoughts at all. My life as a local elected official attests to this: I have always raised living together and equal rights between our fellow citizens to the highest level. At the Parisian, Caroline Cayeux explained that she had “exchange” with Clement Beaune. “I felt that I had hurt him and I want to tell him all my friendship”, she added. Invited in stride on franceinfoClément Beaune replied to his colleague.

Clément Beaune: “I thought it was very important not to hide it”

“It’s not me who’s hurt. It’s a question of values, of principles, of political line. It has been recalled very clearly by the governmentreplied the successor of Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. I defended it very clearly. I will always defend them, those convictions and those principles, that’s what matters to me. I thought it was very important not to hide it, to say it, in private and in public, because we are talking about fundamental subjects.” According to franceinfo, members of the presidential majority have written a forum to demand the resignation of Caroline Cayeux which should be broadcast in a few hours. An idea that does not displease Clément Beaune: “If it’s to recall the principles and say what the political line is. Mine and my political fight, it’s clear, is that of equality, that of rights, of the advances that we have collectively won in the majority”.