Soon a minister from Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines)? For several days, the name of Aziz Senni has been circulating for a position in François Bayrou’s government. According to several sources, the 48-year-old could land the Labor or SME portfolio. An unexpected consecration for this loyalist of the Prime Minister, who did his first training in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), the town where he comes from.
Locally, Aziz Senni became famous when he imagined a collective taxi company in his late twenties. With a brilliant idea: pool shopping to reduce the cost of customer care. The principle had emerged in the Val-Fourré district before developing in the Paris region. He had to face the anger of taxi drivers who saw it as a threat to their business.
Candidate for the 2007 legislative elections
Insatiable, he then launched other projects, including an investment fund focused on neighborhoods. He also co-wrote, in 2005, a book called “The social elevator is broken, I took the stairs” (Editions Archipel), where he recounts the difficulties of establishing oneself in the business world when one comes from disadvantaged neighborhoods. President and founder of the “Business Districts” association, Aziz Senni launched the first edition of “Davos of the Suburbs” last September.
With success, Aziz Senni naturally turned to politics, seduced by the project carried by the MoDem. And it was François Bayrou himself who dubbed the ambitious young man. In 2007, he ran for the legislative elections in the 8th constituency of Yvelines. Loyal to the mayor of Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), he never cut ties with his mentor, who was appointed Prime Minister on December 13. Contacted, the person concerned did not wish to speak.
