The resigning Minister of Health expressed his opposition to the text voted on Tuesday evening, hardened after discussions with the Republicans.
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A first resignation within the executive. The Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, has left the government, confirmed government spokesperson Olivier Véran on Wednesday, December 20, adding that he was “absent this morning at the Council of Ministers”.
Aurélien Rousseau dissociated himself from the immigration bill, voted on Tuesday evening in the National Assembly and the Senate. He had declared to WorldWednesday morning, that he “did not give left-wing or moral lessons to anyone”but he noticed “clinically than this[était] not possible for [lui] to explain this text”.
The interim at the Ministry of Health will be ensured by Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, the current Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions. “I will continue to pursue the work undertaken alongside Aurélien Rousseau, in a spirit of construction in the service of the health of the French people”promised the person concerned on the social network
Former member of the PCF in his youth, then senior civil servant and director of the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency during the health crisis, Aurélien Rousseau was appointed to the Ministry of Health at the end of July, succeeding François Braun. He had previously headed the office of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
