Aurélie Filippetti, former French socialist minister of culture, joins Place publique.
Aurélie Filippetti, former cultural minister under François Hollande, has joined Raphaël Glucksmann’s Place publique party, according to AFP, which confirmed information from Paris Match.
“Place publique welcomes Aurélie Filippetti. We are delighted that a former minister of culture, with solid and recognized political experience, has joined the party ,” Thierry Brochot, the movement’s general delegate, told AFP.
The arrival of Ms Filippetti, following that of Senator Grégory Blanc from Maine-et-Loire, announced Wednesday, is, according to him, “another positive signal for Place publique.”
This demonstration will be formally announced during the Place publique Back-to-School University, which will be held in La Réole (Gironde) on October 4 and 5.
Ms. Filippetti, a former Moselle MP, was appointed Minister of Culture at the start of François Hollande’s five-year tenure, from 2012 to 2014, but refused to serve in Manuel Valls’ second cabinet, citing a disagreement with the strategy being followed.
After becoming an opposition figure inside the Socialist Party (PS), which she quit in 2018, she was not re-elected in either the 2017 parliamentary elections or the regional elections in the Grand Est area four years later.
She began teaching with a cultural policy course at Sciences Po, where she was an associate professor before being appointed head of cultural affairs for the City of Paris in November 2022.
Source: Le Monde/AFP
