The Minister of Local Authorities, who came from the right and former opponent of marriage for all, was recalled to order by Matignon, after her declarations on homosexuals caused indignation within the executive and part of the majority.
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The exercise of contrition has its limits and forgiveness is not always granted when it is claimed. The new minister of local authorities, Caroline Cayeux, makes it the painful experience. Despite “sincere” excuses, she says, formulated towards associations to combat homophobia and the government -of which she shocked certain members -published in an interview with Parisian , on July 14, the septuagenarian struggles to forget her words about homosexuals and marriage for all.
In 2012, at the time of heated debates on marriage for all, M me cayeux, at the time senator of the Union for a popular movement (now the Republicans, LR), had describes the union open to homosexuals as a “unnatural design”. Words that earned him a platform, in Têtu magazine, on July 11, and signed in particular by left -wing elected officials, calling for the resignation of “ministers to the past manifa for all”. Remarks, above all, that the minister “maint [enus] of course”, on LCP, on July 12, before indicating that she had “many friends among these people”. A formulation, which far from erasing the fault, only accentuated the discomfort.
In a column to be published Sunday July 17 in the Journal du Dimanche (JDD), Bertrand Sirven, former communications advisor by Bruno Le Maire and personal friend of the Minister of the Economy, supported by a dozen majority parliamentarians – from Renaissance and Horizons parties – as well as LR right -wing elected officials, formulate a reminder to the order addressed to the government. “The stake is not that Caroline Cayeux resigns or not,” explains the former communicator, who says he was “faced” by the Minister’s words. “But sometimes speech at a resolution greater than the law,” he said. “How to accept that a member of the executive, whose first role is to ensure the application of laws, can describe as” these people “of French citizens?”, He writes in particular. “The question is whether the government, in its duty of solidarity, validates the position of one of its members, and if the majority subscribe to its attitude,” he adds. “stupid”
The burden coming from a personality considered as an ally of the executive aims to remind those who would be tempted to ignore it, that the government of Emmanuel Macron, which has members from the right formerly opposed to the Marriage for all, must maintain a progressive attitude on societal issues. And that no slip can be tolerated.
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