It is support from the first hour of Emmanuel Macron who enters the government. At 39, Olivier Véran was appointed Sunday Minister of Health in place of Agnes Buzyn, who agreed to replace Benjamin Griveaux at short notice as LREM candidate for mayor of Paris. This neurologist, elected deputy of Isère in 2017, inherits a ministry under the pressure of angry hospital staff, all in full threat of epidemic of coronavirus.
A former socialist who became a macronist from the start
Olivier CHU, a doctor from Grenoble University Hospital, comes from the ranks of the Socialist Party, and entered the National Assembly as deputy to Geneviève Fioraso in 2012, when she joined the Ayrault and Valls governments until 2015. At the time, the one who said he had the "heart on the left", described himself as "really progressive, very European convinced, opposed to inequalities".
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It was in 2015 that he met Emmanuel Macron when the Macron law was discussed in the Assembly. He then joined the En Marche! since its creation, seduced by the "overcoming of cleavages and political politics" of the one who was then Minister of the Economy, until becoming the health referent of the presidential candidate.
A "very good connoisseur of the hospital"
Elected as a deputy under the LREM label in 2017, Olivier Véran has since been the rapporteur for the prevention section of the Health Law, before becoming the unavoidable general rapporteur for the Social Affairs Commission in 2017. He is also Regional Councilor of Auvergne -Rhône-Alpes since 2016 and was appointed, in January, rapporteur for the organic part of the pension reform, that on financial balance.
He had moreover already been approached to occupy the Health Morocco in 2017. At the time, Jean-Paul Ortiz, president of the CSMF, first union of liberal doctors (generalists and specialists), described him as "hard worker", "sympathetic", as well as "very good connoisseur of the hospital". During his medical studies in Grenoble, the new minister had thus been vice-president of the Inter-Syndicat national des internees (ISNI), and had worked as a nursing assistant, particularly in geriatrics, to finance his training.