Caroline Cayeux (born 1 November 1948) is a French politician who has been serving as
Minister for Relations with Local Authorities in the
government
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of
Prime Minister
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Élisabeth Borne
Élisabeth Borne (; born 18 April 1961) is a French politician who has served as Prime Minister of France since May 2022. She is a member of President Emmanuel Macron's party Renaissance.
A civil engineer, government official and manager of sta ...
between July 2022 and November 2022.
Prior to joining the government, Cayeux served as
mayor
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of
Beauvais.
Political career
Cayeux became
Departmental President of Oise for the
Rally for the Republic in 1998, after the incumbent,
Jean-François Mancel was forced to resign for entering into an electoral and political alliance with the far-right
FN.
Cayeux defeated the incumbent
Socialist Party
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Mayor of Beauvais
Walter Amsallem in the
2001 election and was re-elected with 58% in 2008 against Sylvie Houssin of the PS.
Cayeux was defeated as a RPR dissident candidate in the
2002 French legislative election and as a candidate on the UMP list in the
2004 Senate election. She became regional councilor of
Picardy in 2004, on the UMP-UDF list of
Gilles de Robien
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The son of Count Jean de Robien by his wife Éliane Le Mesre de Pas, he is descended from the noble Breton family de Robien.
In 1989 ...
.
Cayeux was the only candidate for the
UMP nomination in
Picardy for the
2010 regional elections and will thus be the UMP's top candidate.
Controversy
In 2018, Cayeux made international news playing an
April Fools' Day prank via social media, claiming that furniture giant
Ikea would be bringing 4,000 new jobs to Beauvais; the prank was not well received across social media
Following Cayeux's appointment to the Borne government, more than 100 French public figures signed an open letter denouncing her opposition to a 2013 law for
same-sex marriage
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and
adoption which Cayeux had called a "caprice" and "plan that goes against nature".
[Layli Foroudi (16 July 2022)]
French public figures accuse new minister of homophobic comments
Reuters
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References
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1948 births
Living people
Politicians from Paris
Rally for the Republic politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
The Social Right
French Senators of the Fifth Republic
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Women mayors of places in France
20th-century French women politicians
21st-century French women politicians
Women members of the Senate (France)
Senators of Oise
Members of the Borne government