Lucie Castets
Lucie Castets | |
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 Castets in July 2024 | |
| Chief financial officer of Paris | |
| Assumed office 11 October 2023 | |
| Mayor | Anne Hidalgo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 March 1987 Caen, France |
| Political party | NFP (2024–present) |
| Other political affiliations | PS (2008–2011) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po (BA; MA) London School of Economics (MA) Fudan University École nationale d'administration |
| Occupation | Economist • Civil servant |
Lucie Castets (French pronunciation: [lysi kaste]; born 3 March 1987)[1] is a French civil servant and economist. Associated with the Socialist Party, Castets was nominated by the New Popular Front (NFP) to serve as Prime Minister of France in the aftermath of the 2024 legislative election.
Early life and education
[edit]Castets was born in Caen to parents who worked as psychoanalysts, and resided in Caen up until the age of 18.[1][2] She moved to Paris to study at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and afterwards studied political economy and public law at Sciences Po.[3][4] She received a master's degree from Sciences Po and the London School of Economics and studied Chinese at Fudan University in Shanghai, before graduating from the École nationale d'administration in 2013.[4][5]
Civil service career
[edit]Castets began her career in the French civil service in 2007, working as an assistant to the cultural attaché at the Consulate-General of France in Shanghai between 2007 and 2008.[6][7] She became involved with the World Bank in 2011, primarily working on projects involving financial intelligence.[8] In 2014, she was working at the Direction générale du Trésor within the Ministry of Economics and Finance, and then became the government commissioner to the Bureau central de tarification.[9][10]
Between 2018 and 2020, Castets headed a section at Tracfin within the Ministry of Economics and Finance, the intelligence agency responsible for combating illegal financial circuits, money laundering, and the financing of terrorism.[11] In 2020, Castets joined the administration of mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, becoming an economic advisor.[1] In October 2023, she was appointed by Hidalgo to serve as Director of Finance and Purchasing in Hidalgo's office.[12][10][13]
Academic career
[edit]Between 2014 and 2017, Castets was a lecturer of economics at Sciences Po.[11] In 2022, she became a part-time associate professor of economics at Paris Dauphine University, and has also been published in the journal Alternatives économiques.[1]
Political career
[edit]Castets was a member of the Socialist Party between 2008 and 2011, when she was a supporter of Martine Aubry and the Union of the Left.[1][4] She has worked for the Besoin de gauche movement for Pierre Moscovici and for the Point d'ancrage think tank.[14][15] Castets entered elected politics for the first time after being selected to stand as a candidate for the Socialist Party in the 2015 regional election in Normandy, although she was not elected.[9][16][17]
Castets left the Socialist Party in 2011, due to disagreements with the political direction that François Hollande took the party.[12] However, she remained affiliated with the party and participated in the campaign of Anne Hidalgo during the 2022 presidential election, also becoming closer to Clémentine Autain.[4]
In 2021, Castets cofounded the Nos services publics collective, which seeks to "highlight dysfunctions and make proposals" to improve public services in France.[11] She received public attention in 2022, when she questioned Stanislas Guerini on the television program Ce soir about the unwarranted use of consulting firms.[18]
Prime ministerial nomination
[edit]In July 2024, Castets was nominated by the New Popular Front as their candidate for prime minister of France, in the aftermath of the 2024 legislative election in which the NFP won the most seats but not a majority.[10][19] Following her nomination, Castets said that her political priorities were reversing the pension reform by Emmanuel Macron, a tax reform to make sure that "all pay their fair share", and to improve purchasing power by raising salaries and social benefit payments.[20]
Macron dismissed her nomination, initially saying that he would not make any decisions before the end of the 2024 Summer Olympics and that "the question is not a name", but which governmental majority would be formed in the National Assembly.[21][22] Castets rejected forming a coalition with Macron's Ensemble group due to what she said were profound disagreements, and urged Macron to accept her nomination.[23][24] He then rejected it again in late August on the grounds that other parties have indicated that an NFP minority government would lead to an immediate no-confidence vote against it.[25]
Personal life
[edit]Castets is married to a woman and they have a child.[26] She played tennis for about ten years,[27] and served as ball girl at the French Open at the age of 15.[28]
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Lucie Castets (NFP) : la page Wikipédia de la candidate pour le poste de Premier ministre supprimée, "C'est cocasse"". Marie France, magazine féminin (in French). 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- ^ "Qui est Lucie Castets, proposée par le Nouveau Front populaire pour Matignon ?". Le Nouvel Obs. 23 July 2024.
- ^ "Qui est Lucie Castets, l'inconnue proposée par la gauche pour Matignon? - Le Temps" (in French). 2024-07-24. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Qui est Lucie Castets, l'inconnue proposée par la gauche pour Matignon? - Le Temps" (in French). 2024-07-24. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- ^ "French leftist front proposes financial crime fighter as prime minister candidate". Reuters. 2024-07-22.
- ^ "France – Qui est Lucie Castets, la nouvelle candidate pour le poste du chef du gouvernement ?". Tunisie Numérique. 23 July 2024.
- ^ "Extrait de la fiche de Mme Lucie Castets". LesBiographies.com.
- ^ Chatain, Pierre-Laurent. "Protecting mobile money against financial crime" (PDF). World Bank.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Blanchard, François (23 July 2024). "Haute fonctionnaire, ex-conseillère d'Hidalgo : qui est Lucie Castets, la candidate au poste de Première ministre du NFP ?". BFM TV.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "French left picks Parisian Lucie Castets as PM candidate after days of bickering". POLITICO. 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "EXCLUSIF : Lucie Castets proposée par le Nouveau Front populaire au poste de Première ministre - L'Humanité". Humanité. 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lepelletier, Pierre (23 July 2024). "Matignon : avec Lucie Castets, le Nouveau Front populaire choisit une haute fonctionnaire comme « première-ministrable »". Le Figaro.
- ^ "Macron says no new government until 'mid-August,' declining left-wing proposal for PM". Le Monde.fr. 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ "Qui est Lucie Castets, proposée par le Nouveau Front populaire pour le poste de Première ministre ?". France Info. 24 July 2024.
- ^ "Promotion Jean Zay (2012 - 2013)" (pdf). ENA.
- ^ Lascoux, Benoît (9 October 2015). "Seulement deux sortants sur la liste PS". Ouest-France.
- ^ Fouda, Emile (9 October 2015). "Régionales: la liste des candidats socialistes du Calvados présentés par les présidents de Haute et Basse-Normandie". actu.fr.
- ^ Valat, Hadrien (2024-07-23). "Pour Matignon, la surprise du NFP avec Lucie Castets". Les Echos (in French).
- ^ "French left bloc New Popular Front agrees to propose Lucie Castets for prime minister". France 24. 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ "La gauche propose Lucie Castets pour Matignon, Emmanuel Macron dit qu'il ne nommera personne avant mi-août". rts.ch (in French). 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ Breeden, Aurelien (23 July 2024). "Macron Rejects French Left's Pick for Prime Minister". New York Times.
- ^ "« La question n'est pas un nom », Macron esquive l'idée Lucie Castets soufflée par le NFP". Le HuffPost (in French). 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ Duguet, Margaux; Dubar, Louis (24 July 2024). "Nouvelle Assemblée nationale : Lucie Castets juge "impossible" une "coalition avec le camp présidentiel du fait de désaccords profonds"". France Info.
- ^ Le Baron, Simon (24 July 2024). "Lucie Castets : "Je demande au Président de prendre ses responsabilités et de me nommer Première ministre"". France Inter.
- ^ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240826-macron-far-right-leader-le-pen-pressure-mounts-name-new-prime-minister
- ^ Alemagna, Lilian. "Dévoilant son projet politique et sa vie privée, Lucie Castets relance sa campagne médiatique". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "« Bien dans ses baskets », Lucie Castets veut protéger sa femme et son enfant". Le HuffPost (in French). 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "À 15 ans, Lucie Castets ramassait déjà les balles perdues... à Roland-Garros". Le HuffPost (in French). 2024-07-25. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
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