these ministers who work in the shadows during the Covid-19

Brigitte Klinkert, Minister for Integration, and Joël Giraud, Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, both belong to the government of Jean Castex. In the midst of a health crisis, Brigitte Klinkert is traveling to Angoulême (Charente). “It is very, very important for me to meet young people like this morning, either who are looking for a job, or who have just found one, and to tell them that despite the crisis there is hope. “, explains the latter. If the Minister Delegate is a political figure in Alsace, where she has been elected for more than 30 years, she is less known in Angoulême. “I didn’t know her personally, I found her very committed”, entrusts a man to the teams of France Televisions.

Despite the pandemic, ministers continue to go on the ground. Joel Giraud went to Mont-Dore, in Auvergne, and spent the night in a mountain refuge. “I prefer shelters to TV sets”, confides the Secretary of State in charge of rurality. Enarque and deputy since 2002, he also goes to meet the French, in part to prepare the 2022 campaign of Emmanuel Macron, to whom he is close. Less media coverage than other ministers, the Secretary of State is amused by his relative anonymity: he has promised to stop politics next year.