Paris (AFP)
Former Secretary of State Brune Poirson (LREM) announced Tuesday to cede her seat as MP for Vaucluse to her deputy to "turn to other horizons" than politics and "act in favor of ecological transition".
Brune Poirson, 38, no longer wishes "formally" to be in politics today, she told AFP.
She "passes the baton" to her deputy Adrien Morenas in the National Assembly, who had already replaced her when she was a member of the government.
The former Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition does not "yet" know what her "new functions" will be but intends "to continue to carry out, in other forms, a concrete fight without renouncing in favor of the ecological transition and solidarity ".
Until then, Brune Poirson is officially pursuing a mission entrusted by the government on education for sustainable development.
She is also a director of the Fondation de la mer, which supports associations and programs on marine biodiversity.
At LREM, she remains, at this stage, responsible for the international relations of the movement.
Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition from 2017 to July 2020, Brune Poirson mainly carried the law against waste and for the circular economy, adopted in early 2020.
"The implementing decrees", still awaited for some of them, "must now be up to this text and not betray its ambition," she claims.
Previously, the graduate of the London School of Economics and the Harvard Kennedy School had worked for several years in India, in a ministerial cabinet, then for the French Development Agency and Veolia.
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