2023-07-31 03:47:44
“It’s behind”assures Aurélien Rousseau, welcoming us to his new office on 7e floor of the Ministry of Health, this Thursday, July 27, a week to the day following his appointment. The controversy over a possible conflict of interest, due to the position of his wife, number two of Health Insurance, may have been dismissed by the High Authority for the transparency of public life, it weighed on his first days Avenue de Ségur.
Those who have followed his career are aware that the 47-year-old senior civil servant was, until recently, director of the cabinet of Elisabeth Borne, the head of government, and, before that, director of the regional agency of health in Ile-de-France during the worst hours of the crisis due to Covid-19. But anyone who found out regarding his name during the July 20 reshuffle mostly heard that he was the “husband of Marguerite Cazeneuve”. And that the functions of the couple might be incompatible. “This suspicion was extremely painful, even if I will not speaks no violence, I know there are much more serious thingshe concedes. But it was an immediate dive into what a surge can be. »
Without waiting for the controversy to settle, the new Minister of Health contacted caregivers and made his own story on social networks, not hesitating to stage himself. “Everyone has their story. Mine went through a lengthy “sheave” service from La Pitié”, he tweeted, on July 21, revealing two photos showing him wandering around the Pitié-Salpêtrière, in Paris, alongside hospital workers and Nicolas Revel, the boss of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris. A reference to his months of hospitalization for a rare neurological disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, when he was studying at the National School of Administration. Another tweet, another setting: Aurélien Rousseau went, on July 26, at night, to the SAMU in Paris. The opportunity to pay tribute to the« engagement » caregivers. In the meantime, the press was able to accompany him, on July 24, to a nursing home in Magny-en-Vexin (Val-d’Oise), where he officially took up the file of medical deserts.
A “office man”
Because in a completely different style than other new ministers, who, in education or solidarity, are making first announcements, he claims to give himself time to clarify his roadmap. “I’m still in the early days of my installation, I don’t want to give the impression of rolling out a copy, nor take the risk of making a mistake regarding the order of priorities”, he explains, even though his knowledge of the system, as much as of the expectations of Matignon and the Elysée, is hardly in doubt. This is also the refrain he sang during the handover ceremony on July 20, where he preferred to deliver some of his « convictions » on the “prevention”in particular, or on the solutions that emerge from « terrain ».
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