The former socialist minister, who had retired from the political world to teach at Sciences Po, will be responsible for strengthening Anne Hidalgo’s “ambitious cultural project in terms of artistic and cultural education”.
The former socialist Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti will join the town hall of Paris as director of cultural affairs, the two parties told AFP on Wednesday, November 9, confirming information from Le Monde.
Aurélie Filippetti does not yet have a start date but it must take place “as quickly as possible”, she told AFP. She will succeed Irène Basilis and will be at the head of more than 2,800 municipal agents, exhausted by the Covid crisis.
In politics, the former deputy for Moselle, who became Minister of Culture at the start of François Hollande’s five-year term, from 2012 to 2014, remained on two electoral failures, in the legislative elections of 2017 then in the regional elections in the Grand Est, in 2021. he former “rebellious” figure of the opposition to the government of Manuel Valls within the PS itself, to the point of abstaining on the 2015 budget, had branched off into teaching with a course in cultural policy at Sciences Po, where she was an associate professor, she told AFP.
“Not a return to politics”
In addition, the author of several essays and novels, Aurélie Filippetti presented her candidacy to Anne Hidalgo for “take advantage of [son] cultural policy experience”she explains.
“It’s not a return to politics, the place that will be mine will not be political”insists the one who will, at the head of this direction, ensure the “management of the policy defined by the mayor of Paris”.
The former municipal councilor of Metz intends to strengthen the “ambitious cultural project, in terms of artistic and cultural education”by Anne Hidalgo, marked by “access to culture for all and the place of art in the public space”like with Sleepless night which has just celebrated its 20th anniversary.
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