Saturday, May 9, 2015

Virginie Calmels to conquer Aquitaine – The World

The mayor of Bordeaux, Alain Juppé and his assistant Virginie Calmels in April 2014 in the Bordeaux City Hall .

There are people for whom everything goes fast. Very quickly. Virginie Calmels, former Executive Director of Canal + and audiovisual World Endemol group (7,000 employees, 1.4 billion euros of turnover), wasted no time in politics. A year after being elected on the list of Alain Juppé in Bordeaux, here invested UMP list for regional Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes. A tough one because the right has little chance of winning, but a springboard for this beautiful 44 year old woman who started a second career with a bang.

His rapid ascent cringe in a party where one generally believes that getting tickets is done by seniority. His appointment also did not go smoothly. A first meeting of the National Commission investiture on 16 April, had been so stormy that Christian Estrosi had preferred to defer consideration of his case. Admittedly, the Juppe-Calmels duo had not put forms: neither one nor the other were present to defend the list. No more than Nicolas Sarkozy who the day before, had however assured the first deputy mayor of Bordeaux support: “This is a woman of quality and lack of female heads of lists” , was estimated at a press conference the president of the UMP.

“I’m not the little blonde protected Alain Juppe ‘

His family, like Brice Hortefeux and Christian Estrosi, have also supported without Virginie Calmels flinching. But Alain Juppe has not only friends in the party, where some …

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