"I'm going there to win" launched Agnès Buzyn on Sunday. It is up to the now candidate for mayor of Paris the delicate mission of wearing the colors of LREM to urgently replace Benjamin Griveaux. At the proposal of the Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron at around 8:00 pm "terminated" the functions of Agnès Buzyn in government and appointed the deputy and doctor Olivier Véran to the Ministry of Solidarity and Health. My "successor obviously will take in hand" the "important" subjects of the ministry, had assured Agnès Buzyn.
"I'm going there, I want to," said the new candidate to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Under a deluge of rain, she arrived in the evening in a Parisian cafe where LREM had organized a rally. "This city is going badly, it is not well managed," immediately launched the former minister, surrounded by enthusiastic activists and the general delegate of the Stanislas Guerini movement.
New turnaround
Less than 30 days before the first round on March 15, this is a major new twist in this campaign which is not lacking. As of Friday, Agnès Buzyn said on France Inter that she "could not" be a candidate because of her "very busy" agenda and the "extra work" caused by the coronavirus crisis.
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- France Inter (@franceinter) February 16, 2020At 58, the former doctor and ex-president of the national cancer institute inherits a difficult mission for the first electoral experience of his career. Even before his spectacular withdrawal on Friday, Benjamin Griveaux was third in the polls, behind outgoing socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo and candidate LR Rachida Dati. The walkers therefore wanted a heavyweight and a quick solution in a generally complicated municipal sequence, while the agitated debate on pensions started in the hemicycle of the National Assembly on Monday.
Agnès Buzyn's new Parisian rivals, on the other hand, castigate an "abandonment of post" at the Ministry of Health. For Anne Hidalgo's campaign director, Emmanuel Grégoire (PS), the walker commits "a serious political mistake" when she "explained two days ago that she could not be a candidate in Paris because of major issues which she deals with: coronavirus, hospital crisis… ”. In the entourage of dissident and ex-LREM Cédric Villani, we also criticize an "incomprehensible decision" which "weakens the executive in the midst of a health crisis, to the detriment of a possible rally and victory behind" the mathematician.
Olivier Véran appointed Minister of Health
It is now Olivier Véran who will have to manage the many sensitive files of the ministry. 39 years old and from the socialist ranks, this LREM deputy, neurologist by profession, was rapporteur for the Social Security budget in the Assembly and co-rapporteur for the law on pension reform. A follower of shock formulas, willingly teasing with opposition, he had long hoped to enter government, including under the previous five-year term.
There was an urgency at LREM to turn the page Benjamin Griveaux, the first prominent politician to resign over a "sex tape" affair. The alleged broadcasters of sexual videos, the Russian artist Piotr Pavlenski and his partner Alexandra de Taddeo, are both in police custody for "invasion of privacy" and "distribution without the consent of the person concerned." 'images of a sexual nature', as part of the investigation opened on Saturday following the filing of a complaint against X by M. Griveaux. According to a source familiar with the matter, Alexandra de Taddeo was originally the recipient of the May 2018 sex videos.
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