Municipal in Paris: Agnès Buzyn candidate to replace Benjamin Griveaux

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The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, was finally chosen this Sunday, February 16, to replace Benjamin Griveaux. The presidential party La République En Marche is thus determined not to let go of the municipal battle in the capital.

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For 48 hours, the name of Agnès Buzyn had been insisting. The minister had however seemed to exclude the possibility of replacing Benjamin Griveaux, arguing of his mission at the head of his Ministry of Health in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic.

But Agnes Buzyn finally gave in to repeated and insistent requests from the management of En Marche, for which she was the ideal candidate. She is a woman, a heavyweight of the government. Coming from civil society, she therefore embodies the values ​​of the presidential party.

This choice is therefore that of combat: it means that LaREM intends not to drop anything in Paris by sending one of its figureheads to raise the glove against Anne Hidalgo and Rachida Dati.

Already foreseen for the European elections

Agnes Buzyn had already been one of the personalities envisaged to lead the list to the European elections. It was also a question before the Griveaux affair that it presented itself in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

She will ultimately head the list, and should leave her ministry to devote herself to this electoral campaign. A campaign at short notice, in circumstances of crisis. A real challenge for a woman who has never been elected.

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