Majority elected officials denounce Caroline Cayeux’s homophobic remarks in a forum – The HuffPost

LUDOVIC MARIN via AFPCaroline Cayeux, new Minister Delegate for Local Authorities (illustration)POLITICS – The pressure is increasing on Caroline Cayeux, the Minister Delegate for Local Authorities, despite the clarification of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne. A hundred personalities from all walks of life, including elected representatives of the majority, signed a forum, published this Thursday in the Sunday newspaper, to denounce the “homophobic remarks” made by the former mayor of Beauvais (Oise). accept the remarks made by the Minister in charge of Territorial Communities on the eve of the National Day ”, wonder in the JDD in particular the signatories, among whom are, in the political department, the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, the deputies of the majority Joël Giraud, David Valence, Raphaël Gérard, Quentin Bataillon, or even the mayors of Paris Center Ariel Weil (PS), of the 5th arrondissement Florence Berthout (DVD), of the 6th arrondissement Jean-Pierre Lecoq (LR) and of the 9th arrondissement Delphine Bürkli (Horizons), as well as the 1st deputy mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola (EELV). 13 “on marriage for all and adoption for same-sex couples, described as whim and design reform that goes against nature”. Cayeux said she regretted the “stupid and clumsy” remarks The minister had first said to maintain “obviously [ses] about”. “But I always said that the law, if it was passed, I would apply it,” she added, declaring that she had “many friends among these people”. “Frankly, it’s a bad trial that I’m being made and it upset me a lot,” she continued. Faced with the outcry, the minister had backpedaled Thursday evening in Le Parisien, recalling that the words, that she now judges “stupid and clumsy”, “go back ten years”. “And if I cannot deny having held them, obviously I would not use them anymore and regret them”, she added, presenting her “sincere apologies”. But Caroline Cayeux’s apologies do not pass. “The question is not whether this new minister has, in her entourage, friends among ‘these people’, like a mask on her prejudices”, write the signatories of the platform. According to them, “she deliberately chose to maintain homophobic remarks: it is certainly reprehensible”. “And only a judge should decide,” they add, while several associations announced on Wednesday that they had filed a complaint in Paris. “His words hurt many of us personally” For the signatories, including journalists Nelson Monfort and Christophe Beaugrand, “the question is whether the government, in its duty of solidarity, validates the position of one of its members, and if the majority subscribes to his attitude”. Caroline Cayeux’s “regrets” do not have the “strength of sincerity”. she had apologized. “I think things are now clear and Caroline Cayeux, like the rest of the government, is at work and focused on her mission,” she concluded. See also on The HuffPost: Caroline Cayeux, from anti-marriage senator for all to minister in the hot seat