After the costume of candidate for mayor of Paris, Agnès Buzyn has just put on her hospital gown. The former Minister of Health, professor of hematology, resumed since last week his medical activity at Percy Hospital in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), several of his relatives told AFP on Friday. "She now refuses any public expression. But she seems neither stressed nor tired, she is posed, ”explains one of her running mats.
How far away this beginning of the euphoric campaign, led with the enthusiasm of novices! Convinced of being able to take up the torch from Benjamin Griveaux, sidelined after the broadcasting of intimate videos, she was brutally showered with reality: largely outdistanced by Anne Hidalgo and Rachida Dati on the evening of the first round of the municipal elections, followed by controversies over his anticipation of the epidemic, banished part of his political family for press statements deemed at best clumsy.
She, who dreamed of anchoring herself locally, even sees her future in politics written with a question mark. "It's fucked up for her," said a walker in mid-March. While the probability of a second round in June seems illusory, will the majority keep candidate Buzyn for a poll which could finally take place in March 2021? "Perhaps we will put things flat," euphemized a spawn of The Republic on the move.
Confidences that lead to his disgrace
"We still have telephone meetings to animate the collective, and avoid that they find themselves alone," said AFP a relative of Agnes Buzyn, who herself is in contact these days with "the running mate each district ”. On Wednesday evening, it again gathered a large part of its list leaders by videoconference. "I found it quite peaceful," says one of the participants. "Afterwards, I don't know if she does it out of humanity towards us, or if she really still wants to be a candidate", wonders the same, who notes "that in fact, she doesn't say much -something, and we don't really talk about the municipal ones ”.
Even more than his disappointing score, these are confidences published by Le Monde two days after the first round which signed his disgrace. She said that she wanted to “put an end to this masquerade” of the elections before they were held because of the epidemic that was looming, an expression which she then regretted. At AFP, she also confides that “the hour is serious: in 15 days, it's Bérézina in Paris! ", Claiming to have shared his anxieties with President Emmanuel Macron.
At the head of the lists, she then explains "that she was trapped", says AFP Gaspard Gantzer, leader in the 6th arrondissement. "It was surreal! She did not apologize. We talked about the program as if nothing had happened, ”protested a relative after a telephone meeting of the campaign team.
"Buzyn has sparked"
The blast extends beyond the Paris countryside. Because the words of the former minister suggest that she had anticipated "the tsunami wave" and informed the executive summit in January. The Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, confirmed but has still not digested the affront.
Because, according to a ministerial adviser, "Buzyn set the spark that was expected by the political press" to investigate the government's lawsuit on his unpreparedness. Since then, a number of internet users have relayed on the canvas old statements by Agnès Buzyn, which they consider contradictory with his alarmist interview.
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The former minister is also the victim of rumors, some with anti-Semitic tones, claiming that she and her husband Yves Lévy, boss of Inserm from 2014 to 2018, have done everything to keep under wraps the supposed benefits of chloroquine . All because of an alleged long-standing conflict between Yves Lévy and the promoter of the substance, Professor Didier Raoult. "It's bullshit," annoys a relative of Agnes Buzyn, targeting "people who are looking for scapegoats: her, Olivier Véran [Minister of Health] or the Prime Minister".
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