Frédéric Valletoux, new Minister for Health “least desired by the liberal world’. “He’s been waiting for it for a while,” teases a relative.
A trained journalist, the Horizons de Seine-et-Marne parliamentarian and former mayor of Fontainebleau knows the world of health well. He chaired, between 2011 and 2022 and therefore including at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the powerful French Hospital Federation of France (FHF). “His appointment is a sign sent to the hospital”, estimates François Braun, holder of the position from 2021 to 2022.