The 39-year-old neurologist succeeds Agnès Buzyn on Monday who replaces Benjamin Griveaux in the race for mayor of Paris.
“I know the files entrusted to me”, assured Olivier Véran, interviewed Sunday February 16 in the evening by France Bleu Isere on the platform of the Grenoble train station while he was getting ready to go to Paris. Olivier Véran was appointed Minister of Health on Monday to replace Agnès Buzyn, candidate since Sunday for mayor of Paris. MP The Republic on the march from Isère, he was rapporteur since January of the organic part of the pension reform. Monday, when the bill arrives in the hemicycle, it will therefore be on the ministers’ bench.
“Physically, it changes by one meter. I will be one meter more to the left than I would have been”, if he had remained rapporteur for the bill, had fun Olivier Véran. “I know the file and I am ready for the parliamentary debates, which will be intense and extremely long. I have good relations with the major part of the opposition, it is something which seems to me precious, it seems to me important to work with the entire national representation “, commented Olivier Véran.
Agnès Buzyn has set the bar very high, I hope to be worthy of the honor that has been made to me by proposing to succeed him.at France Bleu Isère
“There will be no warm-up period, as they say. There is this coronavirus, with the situation of patients hospitalized in France and patients abroad, for whom I have already been briefed”added the new Minister of Health. “All these files, I know them”, he assured. “I am prepared to exercise these responsibilities.”
“I said we needed a big hospital plan, and the big hospital plan was announced in the aftermath by the Prime Minister, boasts Olivier Véran, with the ten billion recovery in hospital debt, with major work that has been carried out to re-medicalise hospital governance. Obviously I have ideas for the hospital, ideas that I want to share with those who keep the hospital alive on a daily basis. It is an important emergency for our country. The French are attached to it, and, with my knowledge of the public hospital and the love I have for it, I very much want to take up this dossier..
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