It has been just over two weeks since Georges-Louis Bouchez announced Julie Taton's arrival at the MR. For her first interview, the woman who will be number 2 on the federal list in Hainaut spoke to CinéTéléRevue and in the pages of SudInfo. She talks about her son's disability, her battles and her more liberal-than-ever DNA.
Julie Taton: “Right now, I only feel legitimate in defending the cause of people with disabilities, because that is my daily life and my fight. 40 is the right time to change your life.
I believe in life's turning points and I feel I'm at a turning point in my own. I was asking myself a lot of questions about my life, the professional side, the business I had built. I wanted change. There was a meeting with David Leisterh and Georges-Louis Bouchez and that offer to join the MR. At first, honestly, it was more about the image I project and the fact that I'm a self-employed entrepreneur, that I've worked since I was 18, that I built companies with my husband, that we struggle to hire and find people who want to work, etc. But when I met Georges-Louis, I thought: I have a party president in front of me, I'm going to tell him everything that's wrong when it comes to disability, given what I was going through with my son, Côme. I told him about Côme, I said I found certain things shameful, for example those speech therapy sessions that aren't reimbursed, or at least not beyond a far too limited number. Then he looks at me and says: “Come, defend that with us…”
Read the full interview in CinéTéléRevue
Read the full interview in SudInfo