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Agnès Buzyn leaves her post as councilor of the 17th arrondissement

The former minister joined the World Health Organization and gave way to Bertrand Lavaud.

She puts her political career on hold. Agnès Buzyn, former Minister of Health and standard-bearer of LaREM’s colors during the municipal elections in Paris, has joined the World Health Organization, where she will be in charge of monitoring multilateral issues. As a result, she left her functions as councilor of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, reports Europe 1, who had access to his letter of greetings for the new year.

“My road is away from Paris for some time since I am going to work with the DG of the WHO and my current status within a UN agency no longer allows me to be an elected official,” said the former minister ( …). I pass the torch to Bertrand Lavaud, who was extremely present and active during the campaign and whom you all know, to represent you on the borough council. “

The appointment of Agnès Buzyn to the WHO earned her a flurry of criticism from the opposition. For LFI MP Bastien Lachaud, the former candidate “deserts Paris”, when Marine Le Pen (RN) sees in her departure “a way to buy the silence of a minister who had revealed the government’s unpreparedness in the face of the pandemic “.

Florian Bouhot Journalist BFM Regions

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