From the Hotel de Castries, rue de Varenne, Caroline Cayeux, the subject of several calls for resignation for “homophobic remarks” made in 2013 and in the Public Senate at the beginning of July, can count on the support of the Oise.
In his Beauvais town hall, his “Beauvais for all” municipal majority, which allowed him to become city boss in 2001, he posted a column of support on his social media on Tuesday night.
“We know that she is not homophobic, far from it. Some of us have seen her for more than 20 years every day and she has never had such attitudes or such comments,” insists the majority political group, oriented to the right.
Her local training describes a political woman “with great benevolence respecting the differences of each other and firmly defending the principle of equity.”
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In a press release posted on Facebook and titled “With Caroline Cayeux, all different and all benevolent!” “Beauvais for all” believes that her councilor’s recent statements “were inappropriate and do not reflect the humanism” that she “shows on a daily basis.” “We know that her apologies are sincere and her commitment to total equality,” she can be read.
The group denounces “the national caricature” and “the incredible hatred spilled on social networks” that their leader would suffer according to them.
“Here, in Beauvais or in Beauvaisis, none of this exists because the truth is simple: Caroline Cayeux is not homophobic”, affirms the Beauvaisian majority, adding that all members had to sign a letter “on their initiative” committing themselves “to not to make any manifestation of a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic character or any other form of discrimination”.
Since her appointment in the Government, the resignation of the delegate minister has been requested by a first petition headed by several Nupe deputies who criticize her “past Demonstration for all” and describe her as “notorious LGBTQIAphobia”.
In 2013, during debates on marriage for all, Caroline Cayeux, then a UMP senator, compared same-sex marriage to a “design ‘that goes against ‘nature'”. In early July, she defended herself on Public Sénat by keeping her comments and stating that she had “many friends among these people” before backing down later that day.
An expression that does not pass, despite the apologies of Caroline Cayeux, and that increased the controversy, giving rise to the publication in The JDD of another request. Signed by a hundred personalities and elected representatives of the majority, it also demands his departure from the government.
Source: BFM TV
