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Caroline Cayeux, Minister Delegate for Local Authorities, preferred to resign on November 28 for a declaration of assets deemed undervalued by the HATVP.
POLICY – Magnificent Haussmann-style building of around 500 m2, at number 1 Place de l’Alma, located a stone’s throw from Eiffel Tower. This little real estate gem is the subject of litigation between Caroline Cayeux and the High Authority on the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP), reveals this Tuesday, November 29 the daily Courrier Picard.
This litigation pushed the Minister Delegate for Communities territorial to leave his post Monday morning: Caroline Cayeux resigned for a declaration of assets judged “undervalued” over there HATVP. President Emmanuel Macron ended, “at his request”, to the functions of the minister, had for his part announced the Elysée on Monday. His portfolio was taken over by his colleague in charge of Rurality, Dominique Faure.
Tuesday, November 29, we learned that the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP) was going to take this matter to courtsuspecting a “false assessment” and an « fiscal fraud » of the now ex-minister.
“We are not responsible for what we inherit”
“Following my declaration of assets, the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life told me that it considered it undervalued”, said the resigning minister in a press release shared on Twitter a few hours after her departure on Monday, November 28. She adds that he has “seemed preferable to resign so as not to interfere with the action of the government”, without ever specifying the goods denounced by the supervisory authority.
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— Caroline Cayeux (@carolinecayeux)
According to the Mail Picard, Caroline Cayeux, rich heiress of the Panhard dynasty, the automobile manufacturer, and daughter of Doctor Pierre Fournier, director of a pharmaceutical laboratory, has reduced the value of her Haussmann building in Paris but also of hunting grounds in Sologne.
Information confirmed at Monde by the cabinet of the former minister. “We are not responsible for what we inherit”defended a collaborator in the columns of the evening newspaper.
Still according to the regional daily, the Parisian building, located in a district “where the price per square meter flirts with €20,000”, “Belongs to Caroline Cayeux (99%) and her sister for several generations”.
A confidential declaration of assets
The High Authority will not make Caroline Cayeux’s declaration of assets public, because ” in accordance with the law, the declarations of a member of the government who has left office can no longer be made public”, specifies the institution. The former minister must, however, submit a revised declaration of interests and assets within two months, which will be published.
The former mayor of Beauvais (Oise) had already sparked controversy in July when she sought to justify comments dating from 2013, about marriage for all and adoption for same-sex couples. Nine years ago, she called these developments “reform of whim and design that goes against nature”. Last July, just after her arrival in government, Caroline Cayeux commented “I obviously stand by my words. But I have always said that the law, if it were passed, I would apply it”.
“I must tell you all the same, I have many friends among these people. Frankly, it’s a bad trial that I’m being made and it upset me a lot, ” she had added, thinking to catch up with her earlier statements. In the face of outcry over l’expression ” These people “, in reference to same-sex couples, Caroline Cayeux then declared ” to regret “ past remarks “stupid and clumsy”.
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