The attributions of the Minister of Territorial Communities are taken over by his colleague in charge of Rurality, Dominique Faure, announced the Elysée.
Emmanuel Macron ended Monday, November 28, “at his request“, to the functions of the Minister Delegate for Local Authorities Caroline Cayeux, whose attributions are taken over by her colleague in charge of Rurality Dominique Faure, announced the Elysée. “Following my declaration of assets, the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life told me that it considered it undervalued“, she clarified.
Dominique Faure, previously Secretary of State for Rurality, becomes “Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories and to the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, in charge of Local Authorities and to the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, in charge of Rurality“said the Elysée in a press release.
“Do not hinder the action of the government”
The 74-year-old former mayor of Beauvais therefore explains that she decided to resign “so as not to interfere with government action“. The Élysée had previously announced that it had terminated the functions of Caroline Cayeux “at his request», and specified that his attributions would be taken over by his colleague in charge of Rurality, Dominique Faure. The latter rose from the rank of Secretary of State to that of Minister Delegate.
The HATVP, contacted by AFP, indicated that it would not communicate immediately, pending the meeting of its college on Tuesday. Ex-figure of the RPR, the UMP then LR, this representative according to her words of the “social right“had been the subject of controversy upon her arrival in government, due to remarks dating from 2013. She had then qualified marriage for all and adoption for same-sex couples, “whim and design reform that goes against nature“.
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Asked about this statement, Ms. Cayeux replied last July: “Of course, I stand by my words. But I always said that the law, if it was voted, I would apply it“. Then added: “I must tell you all the same, I have many friends among these people. Frankly, it’s a bad trial that I’m being made and it upset me a lot“.
The use of the term “these people”, in reference to same-sex couples, had caused an outcry. Ms. Cayeux then declared “to regret“past remarks”stupid and clumsy“.
A transition to government “quick as lightning”
The oppositions were quick to be ironic about these new setbacks of the government. “Fast as lightning this passage to the government! Decidedly the money and the Macronie, it’s an endless story…“, mocked the RN vice-president of the National Assembly, Sébastien Chenu.
“Caroline Cayeux resigns. Not for his LGBT-phobic remarks, which did not bother Macron, but following a disagreement with the HATVP on his declaration of assets. Clearly, Macronie is mired in money, conflict of interest and opacity… “, lamented the deputy LFI Bastien Lachaud, just like his colleague Clémence Guetté, for whom “we no longer see the end of the Macronist scandals“. “The real question is: who has no trouble with the law or the HATVP in this government?“, tweeted for his part the boss of the PS Olivier Faure.
Fillon’s support
She owed her portfolio to the Collectives to a good knowledge of their mysteries. When she arrived in government in July 2022, she was at the head of the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT), a public establishment wanted by Emmanuel Macron to ensure coordination between the State and local authorities. Mayor of Beauvais since 2001, she has presided since 2014.Cities of France“, an association that brings together localities of 20,000 to 100,000 inhabitants.
Politically, Caroline Cayeux displayed herself as an unfailing support for François Fillon during the UMP primary in 2012, then in the presidential election of 2017. She did not let go, despite the business. It was in 2018 that she slammed the door of the Republicans, in disagreement with Laurent Wauquiez. Partisan rupture which had not prevented her from being re-elected in the first round of municipal elections in 2020 in Beauvais, under the various right label but supported by the Republic in March. She was an active supporter of Emmanuel Macron in the 2022 presidential election.
First a teacher, then head of a professional training organization, this English graduate, holder of a higher diploma in private international law, was born in Paris on November 1, 1948.
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