"This is an announcement that is quite surprising," said Ian Brossat. Questioned by Europe 1 after the declaration of candidacy of Agnes Buzyn in the municipal elections, the assistant of Anne Hidalgo in charge of Housing said his astonishment and his skepticism, Sunday evening.
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"Two days ago, last Friday, Madame Buzyn explained that she would not have time to be a candidate for mayor of Paris," continues Ian Brossat. "She justified it by saying that she was monopolized by the files of her ministry," he said, referring in particular to the epidemic of Coronavirus dependent on the Ministry of Health, currently occupied by the future candidate.
"Don't want to give her the keys"
"All of this gives the feeling that she is not prepared, that she is improvising this candidacy and that she is doing all of this a bit backwards," said Anne Hidalgo's assistant. "I don't think for a second that Madame Buzyn can be a credible alternative for Parisians, because when we see her record at the ministry she has headed for two years now, when we see that she has closed 4,200 beds hospitals only in 2018, that there is a social movement in the hospital which has lasted since March 18, it's been almost a year ... All that really does not make you want to give him the keys to the town hall from Paris."
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