The Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, “He underwent surgery this weekend for a cervical injury, the results of which will be known in a few weeks”Matignon announced in a press release signed by his doctor and released on Monday, October 28.
“Everything went very well. He resumed normal work today at the Hôtel de Matignon and will resume his public activities at the Council of Ministers this Thursday.added the services of the head of government.
Michel Barnier, 73, spoke on Monday with the government spokesperson, Maud Bregeon, and with the minister responsible for relations with Parliament, Nathalie Delattre. His agenda includes a meeting on Tuesday with the leaders of the majority group and an interview with the mayor of Le Touquet, Daniel Fasquelle, and an interview on Wednesday with the minister responsible for the budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, all of these meetings must be held in Matignon.
However, the questions to the Government in the National Assembly and the Senate on Tuesday and Wednesday do not appear in the agenda sent to the press on Monday afternoon.
Emmanuel Macron warned in advance
Asked by Agence France-Presse, the Prime Minister’s services did not want to provide more details, neither about the pathology suffered by the head of Government nor about the modalities and place of the surgical intervention. The President of the Republic had been warned in advance of Michel Barnier’s operation, according to an advisor to the executive.
It is the first time in forty years that a French head of government has undergone surgery: in 1984, the socialist Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy was admitted to the Parisian Val-de-Grâce hospital to treat acute pneumonia.
The Presidents of the Republic Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy were also treated at this military hospital, which has not received patients for eight years, the first in 2005 for a stroke and the second in 2009 due to vagal discomfort.
President François Mitterrand, for his part, underwent two prostate operations in 1992 and 1994 at the Cochin hospital. On April 17, 1964, General de Gaulle, aged 73, was hospitalized for about two weeks in Cochin hospital, where his prostate was removed.
