“Nothing is guaranteed for anyone”: in the turmoil, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra holds on and… sinks. The Minister of National Education seems, in fact, to be hanging on by a thread as the second wave of the reshuffle approaches.

“It’s a cataclysm, a sign that the machine is about to give up,” comments a government strategist. The rector of Paris, Christophe Kerrero, one of the highest executives of National education, resigned.