Covid-19 in France: Olivier Véran, Minister of Crisis
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran defended the French vaccination campaign in the 20 hours newspaper on TFI, January 21, 2021. AFP - STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN
Text by: Valérie Gas Follow
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In France, Olivier Véran was appointed a year ago to the Ministry of Health and Solidarity.
Replacing Agnès Buzyn at a moment's notice, he entered without transition into the management of a health crisis that still lasts.
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Olivier Véran never stops.
And for good reason, for a year, he has been on the front line in the management of an unprecedented health crisis.
"
He has a shitty life
", we slip in the entourage of the Prime Minister.
But he had no real choice but to immediately dedicate himself "
100%
" to his task because he arrived against a backdrop of controversy around the departure of
Agnès Buzyn
accused of abandoning the ship Health at the worst possible time. attempt the electoral adventure in the municipal elections in Paris, replacing Benjamin Griveaux involved in a sex scandal.
"He quickly imposed himself"
Member of Parliament since 2012, doctor, Olivier Véran was chosen because he was immediately operational.
And it doesn't come out of nowhere.
In the executive, it is explained that he had been "
identified in the previous legislature as a rising figure
".
He was one of the Socialist deputies who saw Emmanuel Macron when he was still only Minister of the Economy and was preparing the creation of En Marche.
He was even in the private apartment in Bercy the night Emmanuel Macron decided to leave the government, believes a relative of the head of state to remember.
Result: “
He won very quickly.
"
An adviser to the president takes note of this: "
There is no doubt about his investment ... Relations with the president are quite fluid ... He exchanges text messages directly with him
".
The bell sound is the same on Matignon's side.
He gets along very well with Jean Castex and is one of the ministers who see him in "physics".
Olivier Véran, for his part, is delighted that "
the President and the Prime Minister are always aligned
" and that he is not obliged "
to roll on the ground
" to obtain arbitration.
He defends the health line and at the Élysée, it is believed that this is his role.
A way of evacuating rumors of dissension on certain decisions such as that
not to re-define
.
"Pretty thorax"
Olivier Véran has become an essential and media minister.
"
He's a real politician,
" believes a majority executive, "
he knows how to bring the subjects to the TV shows
".
He also knows how to stage himself as when he was publicly vaccinated by revealing his shoulder and chest.
This earned him a lot of comments on social networks and teasing in his camp: "
handsome ... muscular
".
Roselyne Bachelot even nicknamed it "
pretty thorax
".
Some also mention his faults: "
He can be a poseur ... scornful ... with a little air of a giver of lessons
".
Perhaps the flip side of his ambition.
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To read also: In front of the Assembly, Olivier Véran defends the government's vaccine strategy staunchly
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