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French left bloc New Popular Front agrees to propose Lucie Castets for prime minister

French civil servant Lucie Castets has been proposed as a candidate for prime minister by leftist coalition the New Popular Front. © DR

France's left-wing New Popular Front alliance said on Tuesday it has agreed to propose Lucie Castets, a senior civil servant with the Paris Mayor's office, as their candidate for prime minister. Castets accepted the nomination “in all humility but with great conviction". 

France's leftist New Popular Front (NFP) coalition, which won the largest number of seats in parliament in an election this month, said it had agreed to propose Lucie Castets as its candidate for prime minister to President Emmanuel Macron.

In a joint statement, the four parties in the front said that Castets was a civil servant who had worked in fighting fiscal and financial fraud.

Ms. Castets is involved in “associative struggles for the defense and promotion of public services”, but also “in the battle of ideas against retirement at 64” and is a “senior civil servant who has worked on the repression of tax fraud and financial crime”, according to a statement from the NFP, which agreed to put her forward after 16 days of internal negotiations, much infighting, and two other failed proposals. 

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters)

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