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“I wanted to talk about it because I think it’s a taboo,” assures the mayor of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who suffers from bladder cancer.

“There are nearly 500,000 people each year who are diagnosed with cancer. It affects everyone,” explained Thursday on Inter, the mayor of and first deputy secretary of the PS, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.

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The mayor of Rouen and first delegate secretary of the PS, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, at the 80th Congress of the PS, in Marseille, January 28, 2023. (PENNANT FRANCK / MAXPPP)
The mayor of Rouen and first deputy secretary of the PS, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, at the 80th Congress of the PS, in , January 28, 2023. (PENNANT FRANCK / MAXPPP)

“I wanted to talk about it because I think it’s taboo, that we need to talk about it”assured Thursday, November 14 on France Inter the mayor of Rouen and first deputy secretary of the PS, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, after publicly announcing that he had been suffering from bladder cancer since 2022.

“If we can talk better about these subjects, I think that’s good,” he continued. He clarified that“beyond (his) person”, cancer must no longer be a “taboo”. “There are nearly 500 000 people each year who are diagnosed with cancer. It affects everyone.”he developed. “It is important that public women or men talk about these subjects and that our society has an adult and responsible relationship with the people who represent them in a representative democracy”underlined the city councilor. “There is perhaps a kind of misplaced masculinism in wanting all the time to be in the position of the leader to whom nothing happens, on whom everything slides, who is always ultra efficient: is that what it is? , true courage, true humanity I don’t think so?he declared.

“Either you are supposed to be healthy at work, healthy, high performing, or you are sick and at that point you are isolated,” explained Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. “But between isolation and being ostracized or the impression of being ostracized, there is a boundary that can be quickly crossed”he observed.

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