The Minister of National Education recognized, Tuesday, January 18, before the National Assembly and at the “20 hours” of TF1, have committed “a little error”, but denounces “a not important subject”.
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The legend wants that de Gaulle himself has sounded the decency. By the time Georges Pompidou was about to join the Elysée, the general would have, they said, suggested to his former Prime Minister, who used to relax in Saint-Tropez (Var), to opt for a destination Less “sequins”. “Brittany!” Gaulle advised him. Actual or fantasy, the anecdote recalls the strength of the symbols. And the exemplarity to which the executive is held.
has a little less than one hundred days of the presidential election, in a country jostled by an endless health crisis, any fault of taste seems hardly forgiven. The revelation, Monday, January 17, by the site Mediapart of the stay passed by the end of the year 2021 by the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, in Ibiza, small island of the Balearics known for his unbridled nightlife, has inevitably caused a wave of indignation within the political class.
It was under the mockery of the right that the minister, yesterday appreciated by the Conservatives, made on Tuesday his entry to the National Assembly to answer questions to the government. “So the DJ?” “We are better in Ibiza!” He understood on the benches of the hemicycle. So yes, there was clumsy, conceded the minister. “There is, I recognize, a symbolic (…), the symbolic, I regret it,” admitted Mr. Blanquer.
Calls for resignation on the left
The tenant of the Rue de Grenelle is not at his first Mea Culpa. Four days earlier, he admitted to FranceInfo “errors” related to the health protocol that had sparked the mess in schools. The minister had been heavy on January 3 for announcing this protocol a few hours before the start of the classroom in an interview in Paris. Speaking through a press via an article – first paying – without anticipation gave the feeling of a lack of consideration for education professionals.
Know today that this interview has been granted by phone, from Ibiza, and not to vis-à-vis, as the photo of M. Blanquer could be thought, in front of his office, published in the newspaper, takes PARTY OF DUPERIE. The director of the writing of the Parisian-today in France, Jean-Michel Salvator, regretted Tuesday a “imprudence”, while the drafting had sought to cover the minister.
Nevertheless, the “Ibiza affair” reinforces the image of a foreign minister to the anxieties of the teachers and the exasperation of the parents of students. “The problem is not Ibiza, it is the dimpantism of this minister,” said Tuesday, on France 2, the ecologist candidate in the presidential election, Yannick Jadot, while the left called for his resignation.
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