Virginie Calmels: “I am not a classic profile in this environment” – FranceTV info

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Novice in politics the former leader of large companies such Endemol world or Canal + will lead the regional campaign for the forthcoming major SW Atlantic region. It was designated yesterday by the UMP. Interview with Alain Juppé that would see succeed him for mayor of Bordeaux

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• Published 05/08/2015 | 14:27, updated the 05/08/2015 | 14:27

Virginie Calmels, 44, is the symbol of a new generation that wants to highlight the Republican right. In some such damn great Henri Guaino or Michele Alliot-Marie hostile to his inauguration. They had to be a reason and bend the choice of Alain Juppé validated by Nicolas Sarkozy.

For the assistant to the mayor of Bordeaux’s economy has no political past, has never been elected and is not encartée the UMP.

The tenors like Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique Bussereau in Poitou-Charente, would logically have been appointed in his place.
“ It is a new division of roles and a generational shift that we must prepare as “sexa” “explains Dominique Bussereau with a smile. “ This is a great application. A young woman at the head of a very renewed list ” adds Jean-Pierre Raffarin at the exit of the inauguration committee.

Virginie Calmels gave his first press conference a few hours after his appointment. Happy, smiling, she said love challenges while recognizing that beat Alain Rousset is not an easy challenge.

“ I wear a kind of renewal and difference from the more conventional profiles “she said. Reassuring when his lack of political experience, she emphasizes that “ led large groups, and the area is a big budget with strategic, human, and assembly of view three major regions . “