Agnès Buzyn at the National Assembly, the 30 June 2020 . – Jacques Witt / SIPA
Agnès Buzyn has the art of rebounding. In February 2020, she had left the Ministry of Health as the coronavirus epidemic threatened. Direction Paris and its municipal elections, in order to replace at short notice Benjamin Griveaux, disqualified by the broadcast of an intimate video . She had been widely beaten , did not not even managing to get a seat on the Paris Council.
At the start of the year, Agnès Buzyn will bounce back again: this Tuesday, she confirmed to AFP her appointment to the World Health Organization (WHO), in Geneva, where she will be responsible for monitoring of multilateral issues. “I confirm to you” to have joined the cabinet of the Director-General of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on January 4, she told the press agency, confirming information from The Opinion . Contacted by AFP, the UN agency based in Geneva was not immediately reachable to specify the role that the former minister aged will play years.
She claims to have “sensed »The severity of the coronavirus Even more than his disappointing municipal score, these are confidences
published by Le Monde the day after the 1st round which marked the disgrace of Agnès Buzyn. She said that she wanted to “put an end to this charade” of the elections before they were held because of the looming epidemic, an expression she then regretted.
In retreat since her electoral failure, the one who handed over her doctor’s coat for several weeks to the Percy hospital in Clamart has spoken publicly only three times: in the columns of Figaro in May to denounce “a media frenzy of incredible violence, conspiratorial and anti-Semitic comments on social networks”
Then in June and September before the National Assembly and the Senate to ensure in particular to have alerted the Elysee and Matignon “around the 03 January ”and have“ sensed ”as of 22 janie r the potential severity of the epidemic.