The 73 -year -old elected representative, former support of François Fillon, replaces Christophe Béchu, who takes the place of Amélie de Monchalin to the ecological transition.
Le Monde
It is one of the new faces of the second government of Elisabeth Borne. Carole Cayeux, mayor Les Républicains (LR) in Beauvais and director of the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion, was appointed to the government, Monday, July 4, as minister delegate to local authorities. The 73 -year -old elected representative replaces Christophe Béchu, who takes the place of Amélie de Monchalin to the ecological transition.
old Fillonist rallied to Emmanuel Macron
At the head of the city of Beauvais for twenty -one years, the one who was a senator of the Oise from 2011 to 2017 is also president of the Cities of France association. Close to François Fillon, whom she supported in the LR primary in 2016 and then in the 2017 presidential election, it was predicted to her a ministerial destiny before the defeat of the LR candidate, who arrived third in the first round.
In 2018, this teacher by profession had not renewed his membership in the LR party and had joined Emmanuel Macron. She was one of the 600 local elected officials who had called, at the end of 2021, to vote for the outgoing president in election 2022. Alongside Eric Woerth, the deputy of Oise, who also joined the ranks of the support of the Head of the State , she had actively participated in the campaign of the presidential camp in the department.
May 7, she was invited to the investiture by Emmanuel Macron alongside other local barons rallied to Macronie, like Christian Estrosi, Hubert Falco, Catherine Vautrin, or Christophe Béchu.