After Lucie Castets (NFP), Olivier Véran has announced that he will not be a candidate in the 1^re Isère constituency, where a by-election will be held in the coming weeks. Defeated in July by the La France Insoumise (LFI) candidate Hugo Prevost – who resigned a little over a month ago after accusations of “serious acts of a sexual nature” against him -, the former government spokesman justified his decision on X… on Tuesday evening, in an odd twist of timing.

At a time when the political class is looking to the United States, where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are vying for the White House, the former cabinet minister says he has not “never considered politics as a career.” “I aspire to serve my country differently, to commit myself differently”he says, endorsing his former deputy Camille Galliard-Minier, who already sat on the benches of the National Assembly between 2020 and 2022 when Olivier Véran was Minister of Health. “It’s time for me to take a step back, which is salutary and necessary. It’s not a farewell.”he promises in a long message published on the social network. “Anyway, in politics, ‘never’ means ‘not right away’.”

A Socialist when first elected to the Assembly in 2012, Olivier Véran converted to Macronism five years later. Before embarking on a ministerial career between 2020 and 2024. “I got into politics because I like people, I’ve learned an enormous amount from them.”he recalls. Covid, Nutriscore, “medical use of cannabisfree contraception, “blood donation accessible without discrimination, “social security coverage of autonomy”., “ban on skinny models”soda tax, Ségur de la santé… The former Minister of Health takes the opportunity to list his proudest achievements under the governments of which he was a member.