She suspends everything until April 2.
Former socialist minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, candidate for the regional elections of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, has just been tested positive for Covid-19, according to a press release from his campaign team.
“It immediately applies the rule that is imposed on everyone, in all circumstances: total isolation of 10 days.
Tested regularly, all its close contacts during the last 48 hours are warned, "said his team, adding that" the campaign on the ground (was) suspended until April 2 ".
The former Minister of National Education of François Hollande, who made his statement in the “Tous anti-Covid” application, called on “the Auvergnats, the Rhônalpins and all the French to exercise the greatest vigilance , to respect all barrier gestures ”.
Despite my vigilance, I have just tested positive for Covid-19.
I immediately apply the rule: I isolate myself for 10 days.
I warn all my close contacts of the last 48 hours.
Do the same if it happens to you: protect yourself, protect others.
- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (@najatvb) March 22, 2021
Laurent Wauquiez in the lead in the polls
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem announced on March 14 his candidacy for the June regional elections in an interview with the three major dailies in the region, Le Progrès, Le Dauphiné Libéré and La Montagne.
She said she wanted to embody "an alternative" to the politics and governance of Laurent Wauquiez (LR), who seized the region in 2016.
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In addition to the PS, its list brings together the PRG, Cap ecology and the Republican and Social Left.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem pleaded for a union of the left to hope to debunk Laurent Wauquiez, leading in the polls, but the head of the EELV list Fabienne Grébert replied that he did not see “any reason” to line up behind her.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who was successively Minister of Women's Rights, government spokesperson then Minister of National Education, gained scope after 2017, first becoming Director of International Public Affairs at the Ipsos Institute and then Director of the anti-poverty NGO One, a year ago.
But she remained as one of the emblematic figures of the "Holland generation", these young ministers launched by the socialist president like, moreover, a certain Emmanuel Macron.
