So here is the executive overtaken by a new affair… According to our information, Caroline Cayeux, the Minister Delegate in charge of Local Authorities was forced to submit her resignation to the Head of State, during a telephone interview, this Sunday evening , after having done it in person with Élisabeth Borne.
In question ?
Not the controversy that followed his appointment at the very beginning of last summer.
This resignation would be linked to a disagreement with the High Authority for Public Life (HATVP) on his declaration of assets.
The news should be formalized shortly, by a press release from the Élysée.
Dominique Faure, currently Secretary of State in charge of Rurality, is approached to succeed him.
Last week again, she was strolling all smiles with Macron
"Caroline resigns to be able to defend herself better and not to interfere with the action of the government", blows a support.
It prevents.
It is nothing to say that this affair has come at the worst possible time: only four short days after the revelation, by our newspaper, of the opening of two investigations by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office into the intervention of consulting firms in the Emmanuel Macron's 2017 and 2022 election campaigns...
Last week, Caroline Cayeux was still strolling all smiles alongside the Head of State, in the bays of the Salon des Maires, after several months spent trying to make people forget the lively controversy that had accompanied his first months as minister.
Weakened from the outset, she also privately expressed the wish (pious?) to succeed in making people forget, through her action, her shocking remarks made in mid-July.
Two controversies and then goes away...
Asked by Public Senate about her past fights against marriage for all – she then described it as “whim” and “openness of law disrespectful of nature and senseless” -, the former mayor of Beauvais Caroline Cayeux had defended herself claiming to have “a lot of friends among these people”.
This had provoked the ire of part of the government and the majority, despite the regrets presented by the person concerned in the columns of our newspaper.
“There is no one in the group to endorse Cayeux's comments or to defend her.
She will have no connection with us.
And it will even have a hostile attitude on the part of some, “warned a manager, in the tone of banishment, when others internally lamented that this controversy has” escalated.
It was not known, but at the time, faced with the extent of the outcry, Caroline Cayeux had also thought in private of resigning.
It is now done, but not for the same reason.
