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Guillaume Tabard: "The French disease of the ministerial cap"

2020-07-08T22:34:14.239Z


COUNTERPOINT - How can a minister pretend to reform or straighten out a sector if, when the substantive work is barely underway, he believes he has covered the whole question?


Blanquer, Interior or National Education? Darmanin, Social Affairs or Home Affairs? Denormandie, Education or Agriculture? For two days, the dice rolled. And the least we can say is that the alternative was about portfolios with no relation to each other. This may be gratifying for a minister deemed capable of performing several different functions. But that can be confusing for sectors victims without their knowledge of the very French disease of the government cap.

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Thus, 11 graduates of the Philippe team find themselves in the Castex team, but with another portfolio. Sometimes the mutation hides the demotion. You did not embody the ecological priority enough? You will be perfect at work! We consider that you do not exist in Culture? Foreign Trade is for you!

But how can we ignore the fact that an accelerated ministerial noria damages credibility?

Obviously, a ministerial portfolio is not a lifetime charge. It is also true that a politician is not just a "specialist"

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Source: lefigaro

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