[This editorial opens the spring issue of têtu·, available at your newsstands or by subscription.] “She isn’t a member of La France insoumise, but she would deserve to be”, said Jean-Luc Mélenchon about her barely 18 months ago. Endorsed by the Nouveau Front populaire, Lucie Castets today commits to a primary, placing the leaders of the former NFP before their responsibilities: will the left go to the 2027 presidential election as disunited as in 2002?
Photograph: Odieux Boby for têtu·
“But who is Lucie Castets?” When her name surfaces from the hat of the Nouveau Front populaire (NFP), following the summer 2024 snap legislative elections, the senior civil servant is unknown to the public as to journalists. She then holds the discreet post of Chief Financial Officer of the City of Paris. But the mere fact that the leaders of the NFP ended, after weeks of intense negotiations, by agreeing to demand that Emmanuel Macron appoint her to Matignon shows the rarity of her profile.
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Sophie Brennan