Personnel: Coronation of Catherine Vautrin as Minister of Labour, Health and Solidarity

This is Catherine Vautrin’s great return to government. Not in Matignon, where in mid-May 2022, as reported by Le Parisien – Today in France, the President of Grand Reims, Nicolas Sarkozy’s former press secretary in 2016, was contacted. But the Ministry of Labour, Health and Solidarity, which she accepted this time, is number 3 in the protocol order, after Bruno Le Maire and Gerald Darmanin. Or very high in the structure of a government organization.

In June 2022, Emmanuel Macron offered him a major social service. “I refused, I wasn’t interested,” she later admitted to one of her interlocutors, telling him that she would then have preferred home affairs or justice, an important government ministry. She also gave up Matignon, which she had hoped for months ago.

“The train never passes twice,” she reasoned. But after accepting her several times, as Louis Vigogne recounted in his book Les Sans Jours, judging that she met all the requirements, a locally elected woman with a profile like Jean Castex, the head of state ultimately gave preference to Elizabeth Born . A few hours after the publication of the article in Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui in France, on May 14, the “Historical Marchers” expressed their dissent by organizing a real counter-offensive to prevent the appointment of Catherine Vautrin, former LR (after Edouard Philippe and Jean Castex), who ten years earlier were opposed to marriage for everyone.

Others, however, maintained his public and strong support for Emmanuel Macron during the presidential election. “Emmanuel Macron is the man for the job,” she told La Croix in February 2022, then elegantly welcomed the choice of Elisabeth Bourne as head of government. Even privately, she felt that “those who advised him (Emmanuel Macron) to do this sent him to the wall.”

From that moment she moved on: “I don’t think he chose me, I think he changed his mind. » From now on, Catherine Vautrin, who was Minister Delegate for Social Cohesion and Parity under Jacques Chirac, replaces Olivier Dussopt in the Labor Party and Agnès Firmin Le Baudot in the Ministry of Health. In particular, in the case of Catherine Vautrin, this is the return of political professionals.