Don’t get out of it. The minister, Caroline Cayeux, could have apologized this Thursday night after her “stupid and clumsy” comments about LGBT people, her own government colleagues are not giving up. She is currently preparing a column calling for her resignation and she is expected to appear in the press shortly.
“It’s not for me to say if I accept her apology. It’s up to the people involved. If she wants to, she can support opening LGBT centers across the country, she can support ‘pride’ (pride march editor’s note) ”, This is how the former Secretary of State for Citizenship, now in charge of the ESS, judged Marlène Schiappa this Friday on France inter.
Unconvincing first apologies
The same story of the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune this day on France info who defends “a question of principles, values, political line very clearly remembered by the government”.
The controversy struggles to calm down since last Tuesday. Then, questioned in the Public Senate, the new minister, elected for a long time under the label of LR, had mentioned “having many friends among these people” when speaking of homosexual couples.
The former senator from Oise had also described in 2013 the reform proposed by Christiane Taubira during a debate at the Luxembourg Palace as “whim” and evoked “an opening of law that is disrespectful of nature and meaningless.”
Before the clamor of the left, Caroline Cayeux apologizes a few hours after this interview.
“My words hurt many of you. I deeply regret them, they were naturally inappropriate. Equal rights must always be a priority in our action,” he tweeted.
Colleagues drifting apart
The gesture is clearly not enough. Olivia Grégoire supports her with verbiage the next day. “We have the right to make mistakes once”, launches the former Government spokesman at LCI, now Delegate Minister in charge of Small and Medium Enterprises. During his press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, Olivier Véran denounced his “anachronistic comments”.
The same night, Clément Beaune also regrets “extremely hurtful comments”. “I am one of those people”, he says again through the same antenna.
call to resignation
Hoping to definitively conclude the sequence, Caroline Cayeux decides on Thursday night to separate herself from a long interview in the parisian.
“I understand that these stupid and clumsy words could have hurt so much. I would like to renew all my sincere apologies here because they do not reflect my thoughts at all”, advances the former mayor of Beauvais.
The minister also made sure to appear alongside Brigitte Macron during the parade on July 14. Will that be enough to save her job? Some members of the presidential coalition are not giving up.
According to France info, a dozen parliamentarians from the majority and former ministers signed a forum, to be published this weekend, calling for his departure.
Source: BFM TV
