François Hollande has not been a deputy since 2012. But he regularly returns to the National Assembly.
This Monday, December 5, the former socialist president comes to award the New Human Rights prize to Victor Castanet, the journalist who revealed the Ehpad Orpea scandal.
Author of an investigative book, "Les Fossoyeurs" (Fayard, 2022), the investigative journalist received the 6th Albert Londres book prize last Monday.
Victor Castanet will succeed Rachel Khan, winner of the prize in 2021 for "Racée" (ed by the Observatory)
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Requested by the NGO New Human Rights, which aims to defend these fundamental rights and extend them, François Hollande has therefore agreed to be this year the personality who gives the prize.
Last year, it was Éric Dupond-Moretti, already Minister of Justice, who carried out this mission.
Now without warrant
The ceremony takes place at 6 p.m., in the 8th office, a room made available by the socialist group.
Before presenting the award, François Hollande will meet with Boris Vallaud, the president of the group of socialist deputies, who is also his former deputy secretary general of the presidency of the Republic.
Some parliamentarians did not fail to mark the small ceremony on their agenda and planned to spend a head.
Like this former socialist rebellious, who swings a bit vachard: "I'm going to go see Hollande and say to him: Are
you coming to find out about quality nursing homes?
“Now without a mandate, the former president does not abandon national political life.
Author of "Upheavals"
(Stock), a geopolitical book, it keeps an eye on the next PS congress and continues to respond to requests, including at the Palais-Bourbon.
Not long ago, he thus had lunch with Yaël Braun-Pivet, the President of the Assembly.
