President Emmanuel Macron put an end, Monday, November 28, to ” his request “to the functions of the minister delegate in charge of local authorities, Caroline Cayeux, whose attributions are taken over by her colleague in charge of rurality, Dominique Faure, announced the Elysée.

M^me Faure, previously Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, becomes “Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories and to the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, in charge of local authorities and to the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, in charge of rurality »said the Elysée in a press release.

In 2013, at the time of the heated debates on marriage for all, M^me Cayeux, at the time a senator for the Union for a Popular Movement (now Les Républicains, LR), had described the union open to homosexuals as a “unnatural design”. Words that earned him a platform, in the magazine Stubbornon July 11, signed in particular by left-wing elected officials, calling for the resignation of “ministers with a past Demonstration for all” – Gérald Darmanin and Christophe Béchu are also mentioned. Comments, above all, that the Minister has « now[enus] Of course “on LCP, on July 12, before explaining that she had “many friends among these people”. A wording which, far from erasing the fault, only accentuated the discomfort.