The former Minister of the Interior, close to Emmanuel Macron, announces that he will be a candidate for his own succession at the head of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly. He has held this position since September 2020.
Le Monde with AFP
If he is re-elected to the legislative elections, the boss of the deputies La République en Marche (LRM) Christophe Castaner would like to keep the head of the parliamentary group, he announces Sunday June 5 in the columns of the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) . “I will be a candidate for the group’s presidency: this is where I am most useful, if the deputies trust me again,” said the deputy of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and former Minister of the Interior.
Shouldn’t a woman in this key position? “Women were candidates and could have been elected” against him in 2020, “he replied. “What matters is what we have done. The parity of a group in the National Assembly, we did. Among our candidates, 50 % are new entrants, with a women-men’s balance. And I repeat it: Elisabeth Borne is not Prime Minister because she is a woman, but because she has all the qualities for being. But it is a pride to have a woman in Matignon. L ‘Equality between women and men also involves these symbols, “insists this close to Emmanuel Macron.
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The leader of LRM deputies, who has recently been renamed “Renaissance”, assures that he has “no concern” for the presidential majority in the legislative elections. “There is always a false dish after the presidential election, and people had not yet entered the countryside. A week from the first round, the time for mobilization came,” he said.
Christophe Castaner, former socialist, attacks the new ecological and social popular union (Nuts), the alliance on the left sealed around Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “The Nutpses program is all the photos of the Soviet world”, a “far left concentrate”, he says.
Asked about the controversies linked to the accusations of rape targeting Minister Damien Abad and which he disputes or the fiasco around the final of the Champions League at the Stade de France, Christophe Castaner estimates that these “debates” have ” Asked the French. We owe them transparency and respect for the institutions, at the forefront of which justice. It is up to her to say the law, to judge, to sanction, “he replied.