beaten in Essonne by the candidate of the Nuts, Jérôme Guedj, the Minister of Ecological Transition will leave the Government.
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Entrenched on the first floor of the Liberté space, a municipal building in Massy (Essonne) offering several rooms for rent, Amélie de Montchalin waited long the official results of the prefecture before appearing before journalists. Outside, a thunderstorm had time to pass over the Goachères basin. And Jérôme Guedj, on the other side of the pond, to celebrate his victory over the Minister of Ecological Transition. “We won! We won!” Resonated in the twilight. The candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) obtained 53.36 % of the votes, which allows him to find the post of deputy he held from 2012 to 2014.
Finally, shortly after 11 p.m., Amélie de Montchalin went down. Surrounded by activists, dressed in a pink linen jacket and white pants, she smiled at the cameras. Differentiated, she thanked all those who helped her, “18,540 voters” who chose her to the members of her team. “Obviously, this evening, I also want to take note of the victory of Jérôme Guedj, to whom I address my republican congratulations,” she said, without departing from her frozen smile. Then she concluded: “As the republican tradition wants, I will not be part of the next government.”
important files
The day of her birthday, the minister therefore turns a page. In charge, on May 20, to prepare the country to cope with climatic and environmental issues, Amélie de Montchalin will not have time to expose his intentions; And she will have to invent “another way” of continuing to “serve the French and the Essonnians”, as she confided, Sunday, wish it. There is no summit without precipice. Until this failure, the young woman had succeeded in an exemplary ascent in macronie.
Elue deputy for Essonne in 2017, she quickly established herself as the coordinator of the majority party at the finance committee of the National Assembly. It is under his ferrule that his colleagues from La République en Marche voted for the major tax reforms of the first mandate: end of the solidarity tax on wealth, creation of the single lump sum that lightens the taxation of savings, end housing tax …
Named Secretary of State for European Affairs in 2019, she crossed a new march in 2020. Having become Minister of Public Transformation and Function in the team of Jean Castex, she must carry important files in the eyes of President of the Republic: Ensure the implementation of the Public Service Act, passed in August 2019, and above all lead the emblematic reform of the High Public Service.
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