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The coherence of a resignation

12/20/2023, 6:50:55 PM

Highlights: Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau left the government in protest against the Immigration Law. He was one of his closest collaborators at the Ministry of Health. The decision to leave the government has raised questions about the sincerity of his convictions. He will be responsible for putting this aspect of the new law to music, writes France Inter's Elisabeth Borne. She asks: Is it so exceptional and heroic that a Minister of Health, with strong left-wing commitments, should choose to give up his portfolio?


The Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, left the government in protest against the vote on the Immigration Law. Editorial

Aurélien Rousseau's decision to leave the government after the adoption of the Immigration Act initially aroused a great deal of disbelief. He had warned. Elisabeth Borne, herself, interviewed Wednesday morning on France Inter, seemed to doubt it. However, Aurélien Rousseau was his chief of staff for many months at Matignon, one of his closest collaborators. Even the absence of the latter from the Council of Ministers did not seem to convince.

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Have we forgotten that politics is (or should be) a matter of convictions? Is it so exceptional and heroic that a Minister of Health, who entered politics with the Communists, with strong left-wing commitments and is officially opposed to the reform of state medical aid to foreigners, should choose to give up his portfolio? It is his administration that will be responsible for putting this aspect of the new law to music...

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