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The new Minister of Education and former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne known as on Tuesday, through the switch of energy on rue de Grenelle, to “find the path to institutional stability” and insisted on the “need to create alliances between republican political forces” to justify his determination to affix the federal government of François Bayrou.

“By proposing that I join the government as Minister of State, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister wished to make education, higher education and research the priority of government action”she added.

“I will not pretend this morning that I had planned for a long time to find myself before you”admitted the one who left Matignon in the beginning of the 12 months, changed by the previous Minister of Education Gabriel Attal.

But she defined that she responded “positively” to François Bayrou on account of “particular and serious context” : “a new page opens. This calls for the responsibility of each and every one of us to find the path to institutional stability”she stated.

“I have often said in recent months how much I believe in the importance of the “central bloc” and what it embodies, how a lot I imagine within the want for alliances to emerge between republican political forces”she stated.

If she admitted to not be “a specialist” topics of training and analysis, she judged ” legitimate “ to make it a authorities precedence, as a result of “the school is the foundation of the Republic”. “I am lucid. I am the sixth minister to be appointed in just over two and a half years and I understand the difficulties and expectations of the educational community and the academic and research world”she additional underlined, emphasizing the significance of “put a stop to the rise of incivility, insults, even violence, in [les] establishments » and to “attacks on secularism in [les] schools ».

She did not forget to recall her political weight and her experience by evoking her “ability to defend budgets”whereas the unions are apprehensive in regards to the cuts to educating positions which have been envisaged by the earlier authorities.

The former Prime Minister started her speech, after that of her predecessor, Anne Genetet, by expressing her “solidarity” to the inhabitants of Mayotte, “and especially to the educational and university community, to pupils, students and their parents”.