A doctor at the bedside of a vital emergency campaign. The Minister of Health and Solidarity, Agnès Buzyn, finally agreed, Sunday afternoon, thirty days before the first ballot, to be a candidate for mayor of Paris. Novice in politics, the responsible macronist has the heavy task of succeeding Benjamin Griveaux, who gave up his campaign on Friday after the broadcasting of videos of a sexual nature. Immediately dubbed La République en Marche, Agnès Buzyn announced her resignation from the government, replaced by the deputy and rapporteur for the Social Security budget Olivier Véran , in the midst of the public hospital and coronavirus crisis. "I want to, I'm going to win," she told AFP. An unexpected turnaround, especially since the former hospital practitioner, a time expected in the 15th or 6th arrondissement had affirmed, forty-eight hours before, at the microphone of France Inter, that she "could not be a candidate " , Because of an " agenda
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