On the morning of February 12, Olivier Dussopt waited in a lounge in the east wing of the Élysée.
A month after leaving the government, the former Minister of Labor has a meeting with Emmanuel Macron.
Although he was ejected from Gabriel Attal's new team, the defector from the Socialist Party, who joined the presidential camp in 2017, nonetheless retains the esteem of the head of state.
This good soldier led the reforms of unemployment insurance, Pôle emploi and especially the painful pensions battle last year.
Emmanuel Macron has a new mission to entrust to him, this time at Renaissance, where Olivier Dussopt is gaining ground, as Politico revealed.
Already secretary general delegated to the federations, he officially becomes the party's number two, in a position whose precise title the executive office was to approve on Thursday evening, at the same time as the designation of Valérie Hayer as head of the list for the European elections.
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