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A mea culpa on Mayotte

“In saying that, I am not saying that I have already worked for two years at the Ministry of National Education, that obviously, by being minister for five years, I followed all the subjects that were brought up within the “National Education”, she defended herself, wishing to ensure her “commitment to these subjects, which [lui] are close to our hearts.” “I think we can criticize those who are specialists for being technocrats,” she retorted, that’s to say technocrats who’re too specialised and with inadequate political background. Reproach which had been exactly formulated to her upon her arrival at Matignon, in May 2022, a interval to which she returned in a current work.

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If Élisabeth Borne subsequently put a coin again into the machine, she however wished to make her mea culpa on the controversial sequence which passed off in Mayotte. During her go to to the island on December 30, the minister attracted criticism after turning her again on two lecturers. First evoking a “truncated sequence”, she defended herself this Sunday by explaining that she had “a regret”: “I did not explain to them that I had to leave because I had colleagues of theirs […] who were waiting for me. »

“It’s been ten times that I’ve been told “The procession must leave” […] Obviously, it’s a mistake to not say goodbye to them,” admitted the previous head of presidency. Will the non-specialist Minister of National Education now be capable to refocus on her obligations? Firstly, the job cuts deliberate by the Barnier authorities, towards which she is preventing, or the “need groups” in sixth and fifth grades, a system which should, in her eyes, “be the topic of an analysis “.