Rocky voice of a smoker, Olivia Grégoire, a 43-year-old pure Parisian, succeeds Gabriel Attal as spokesperson.

She is also a candidate for re-election to the legislative elections in the 12th district of the capital.

Sometimes using managerial language, this “pugnacious” walker, according to LREM colleagues, worked for a long time in communication, particularly within the Havas group.

At the time of her election to deputy in 2017, she presented herself in the press as a "bulldozer" who "never lets go", recalling having experienced unemployment.

“I come more from the center right”, also said recently the Secretary of State, spent younger by the ministerial cabinets of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Xavier Bertrand.

A former collaborator hails “a real hard worker with good intuitions”, “sensitive and strong at the same time, she is really a good woman”.

"A Big Mouth"

"She does not pretend anything, she is a whole person", "she knows how to make anger or joy a beautiful political thing", says the general rapporteur of the Budget Laurent Saint-Martin (LREM).

It is "a loudmouth who knows how to tell such a deputy, such a minister, when things go wrong", according to an elected official who rubbed shoulders with her within the majority group.

In the Assembly, she notably chaired the special commission for the Pact law on companies and privatizations.

Very comfortable on the sets at the start of her mandate as spokesperson for the LREM group, she seemed more "discreet" as Secretary of State for the social economy, supportive and responsible, concedes a parliamentary source, a post that she has been occupying since July 2020. However, she has often underlined the support provided to the sector during the health crisis: solidarity fund, loan guaranteed by the State and partial unemployment.

And the "springs" of "this economy of audacity" and "mutual aid", in this delicate period.

Same promotion as Emmanuel Macron

Arriving with the wave of "walkers" elected for the first time in the 2017 legislative elections, she had thwarted all predictions by dislodging the right in one of her Parisian strongholds, facing the outgoing LR deputy and mayor of the 15th arrondissement Philippe Goujon.

Born on September 30, 1978 in Paris, the macronist, after studying history, graduated from Sciences Po – in the same promotion as Emmanuel Macron-, and from Essec.

Founder of a business strategy consulting firm for SMEs and start-ups, Ms. Grégoire has been involved for a long time with the liberal right and the center right.

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