Benjamin Griveaux, during Questions to the Government, to the National Assembly, at the Palais Bourbon, Paris, France, February 9, 2021. – NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA
“I decided to quit my mandate as deputy and presented my resignation yesterday to Richard Ferrand, President of the National Assembly”: it is with these words that the former government spokesperson and ephemeral candidate for the Paris town hall Benjamin Griveaux (LREM) announced on Wednesday
on Facebook his resignation from his post as deputy.
Benjamin Griveaux had to give up the race to the city hall of Paris after the dissemination of intimate images whose revelation, against a background of murky motivations, had sparked a huge scandal.
An entrepreneurial project
The rumor of his departure from the Palais Bourbon had been circulating for a long time. Benjamin Griveaux affirms “to create a firm which will advise and support business leaders in their strategic choices”.
In a message addressed to his colleagues “walkers” that AFP was able to consult, the forty-something assures that he will continue to support the “fights” of the LREM deputies and to remain “faithful to the President of the Republic, as well as to the project. transformation of our country that we have collectively carried out since 2017 ”. “I will always be by your side, but differently, in the battles that lie ahead,” he wrote.
Mission on education for sustainable development
His seat as deputy for Paris should remain vacant until the end of the term of office. He is the second ex-minister of Macronie who has become a member of parliament again to quit political life, after the departure in early April of Brune Poirson, ex-secretary of state for the ecological transition, for the hotel giant Accor.
To avoid a by-election, the government extended its mission on education for sustainable development. His deputy succeeded him in the Assembly.