“Aren’t you taking off your masks?” “The scene takes place in a Parisian cafe, Wednesday, where Martine Wonner – who did a self-test the same morning – came to present to journalists her new association, launched the day before the entry into force of the vaccination obligation for caregivers against Covid-19.
The tone is set. Since the emergence of the coronavirus, the doctor by training has been on the front line of opposition to health measures. We saw it parade this summer alongside opponents of the health pass. MP defends hydroxychloroquine, testifies in controversial film Hold Up. In May 2020, she is the only member of the LREM group to vote against the government’s deconfinement plan, deploring the absence of “an adapted treatment path”.
“This repression against caregivers, I denounce it”
The sanction falls: the former medical director is excluded from the LREM group. In July 2021, she will be excluded from a second group, Freedoms and Territories, after calling, during a demonstration, to “invade” the offices of parliamentarians.
Among his fights, the end of the health pass or the suspension of compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 for caregivers: “This repression against carers, I denounce it. The government suspended 300,000 caregivers overnight, ”she told the press on Wednesday, questioning the figure officially announced by Olivier Véran. Since September 15, she can no longer provide the medical session she had kept alongside her parliamentary activities. Martine Wonner says she is not “anti-vax” and wants to believe in a “classic” vaccine, “with inactivated virus” to fight against Covid-19.
Legislative candidate in 2022
Today, Martine Wonner looks towards 2022. Towards the legislative or the presidential? The one who says she has “a deeply social fiber” announces that she is a candidate for his succession in the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon in order to continue to embody the opposition to health measures. For the Elysee, the Alsatian leaves room for doubt, underlining in an enigmatic way that she “works with a lot of people who would be as legitimate” as her.
With her association, which aims “to support, accompany and contribute to the present and future actions of Martine Wonner”, the elected representative aims to bring together “300,000 members at Christmas”. A hell of a bet, while LREM claims 420,000 and LR, nearly 80,000.
A restaurateur opposed to the health pass at his side
“Many citizens have asked me to set up my own association. By his side, Martine Wonner counts Christophe Chirat, a restaurateur who closed his establishment to protest against the health pass. The Rhodanien is the treasurer of Ensemble pour les Libertés.
The deputy also announces the support of “citizen groups” such as Letons les médecins prescrire – a collective defending the freedom to prescribe hydroxychloroquine, co-founded by the deputy -, Réinfo Covid, Réaction19. So many structures pinned – like the MP herself – for the dissemination of false news on the Covid-19 epidemic. Alsatian local collectives would also be part of it.
Réinfo Covid dissociates itself from Martine Wonner’s association
If Réaction19 did not follow up on our requests, Louis Fouché, an anesthetist-intensive care practitioner from Marseille who is one of the spokespersons for Réinfo Covid, a group that wants to be apolitical, dissociates himself from this announcement: “Martine Wonner is a doctor courageous in the Assembly, it offers another necessary look at the health situation, ”he begins. Corn “ Réinfo Covid is not associated with Ensemble pour les Libertés, he explained to 20 minutes. We did not give this association a mandate to speak on our behalf. On the other hand, each citizen can do what he wants and join her in a personal capacity. “
Martine Wonner intends to transform her association into a platform to “allow a real debate” and “to build completely different ideas for France”. The National Assembly “has become a registration chamber”, she laments.
Identified for her expertise in psychiatry
When she was elected in 2017 in the Bas-Rhin under the label of Emmanuel Macron’s brand new party, Martine Wonner was then a novice in politics. Before declaring herself, the Alsatian was “quite discreet and not engaged in communal and associative life”, remembers Justin Vogel, mayor of Truchtersheim, a town in the constituency of Martine Wonner. “At first, he was a rather affable person, with good interpersonal skills. “
A psychiatrist by training, she has worked as a medical consultant, as an executive in the private sector or as medical director of the Samu social de Paris. Her expertise was identified when she arrived at the Assembly, and she quickly found herself responsible for drawing up an inventory as well as an information report on “the organization of mental health”.
Opposed to the “anti-breakers” law or to the free trade agreement with Canada
It stands out by opposing symbolic texts: asking that “all the rights of asylum seekers be respected”, it does not support the asylum and immigration law in 2018. A year later, it s ‘abstained from voting on the free trade agreement with Canada and deemed the “anti-breakers” law to be “liberticidal”.
At the beginning of 2020, when Alsace is hard hit by Covid-19, it follows in the footsteps of Didier Raoult and takes up the cause for hydroxychloroquine. She then denounces the vaccines offered by Pfizer and Moderna, which she describes as “gene therapy”, an assertion denied by Inserm. At the risk of moving away from some of his voters? Justin Vogel notes that “many citizens no longer understand it”, stressing that the small town of Truchtersheim is “in the community of municipalities where the vaccination rate is the highest per inhabitant (95.7%)!” “
Former first deputy in Strasbourg, LREM, Alain Fontanel “still cannot understand how we go from progressivism to conspiracy”. “The first round of legislative elections in this constituency will be a good test of the state of our society,” he analyzes. And to announce: “There will of course be a candidate of the outgoing majority against Mrs. Wonner. Voters will decide in June.