The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, ended the suspense this Sunday afternoon: she is the one who will replace Benjamin Griveaux as head of the LREM list for municipal elections in Paris.
Since the resignation of the ex-candidate, after the dissemination of intimate videos, the party has met several times to find him a successor. Several names had been put on the table and Agnès Buzyn was the favorite among the executives of the movement. But her busy schedule made her doubt that she agreed to be a candidate.
“It was the best solution from the start. It looks great, it rebalances the game and it changes everything. It puts a real credible candidacy against Anne Hidalgo, "said a member of Emmanuel Macron's bodyguard. "With a good organization in Health, that will not pose any problem", indicates the same source, whereas the epidemic of coronavirus made weigh a heavy mortgage on the option Agnès Buzyn for the municipal ones in Paris.
The boss of MoDem, François Bayrou, has been pleading for his candidacy since October.