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Jean-Michel Blanquer in turmoil.
The Minister of National Education made the headlines this Tuesday morning. The day before, our colleagues from Mediapart revealed that the latter was in Ibiza the day before the start of the school year, when he unveiled the new health protocol applicable in schools. In this period of electoral campaign, several representatives of the opposition are now calling for his resignation. “This level of contempt and irresponsibility is not acceptable. I again ask for the resignation of Jean-Michel Blanquer ”, for example claimed the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot this Tuesday morning on France 2.
Asked a few minutes later on CNews, government spokesman Gabriel Attal came to his defense.
For ministers, the rule on holidays, "is that you have to be permanently reachable", "easily repatriable to Paris if necessary" and "mobilized for your task", he explains, adding that he does not have "no doubt" that this was indeed the case for the Minister of Education.
The new protocol was unveiled in an interview with Le Parisien on Sunday January 2.
For the sake of transparency, we inform our readers that this interview was carried out the day before by telephone.
The journalists in charge of this interview had no knowledge of the place of residence of the Minister of National Education at that time.
What else to remember
“Optimism” on the Covid front.
Gabriel Attal did not only talk about his government colleague this Tuesday morning. The youngest of the executive also commented on the latest figures for the epidemic. And he wants to believe that the situation could improve. On the one hand because the circulation of the Delta variant is now clearly on the decline. But also because “in the regions where the Omicron wave started first, particularly in Île-de-France, there is what seems to be the start of a decline”.
Decision Friday on the vaccine pass.
The Constitutional Council announced today that its long-awaited decision on the vaccination pass should be made this Friday. If the bill, subject of intense debate in Parliament, is adopted, the Head of State can then hope for it to come into force very quickly. The Elders of the rue de Montpensier had been seized by 60 deputies from all sides, led by the group La France insoumise of the Palais Bourbon, and by around sixty socialist senators.
Macron is preparing his big oral.
The President of the Republic travels to Strasbourg on Wednesday to reveal to MEPs the priorities of the French presidency of the European Union. A very political meeting in the middle of the presidential campaign, which should also lead Yannick Jadot to seize the microphone to directly question Emmanuel Macron, during the question and answer session.
Russian troops land in Belarus.
Arriving at an undetermined number, they are to conduct “combat readiness” exercises there next month.
"The upcoming operational readiness and combat exercises are taking place due to the worsening of the political-military situation in the world, the continuous increase in tensions in Europe, in particular on the western and southern borders of Belarus", justifies the Belarusian Defense Ministry.
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Where to live in Paris to enjoy the best high schools?
By comparing the school map and the performance of colleges and high schools, Le Parisien draws up an unprecedented ranking of the neighborhoods where you have to live in Paris to follow the best education in secondary school.
The table shows a very clear contrast between the west and the center of the capital, which concentrate the best schools, and the rest of Paris, despite a recent overhaul of the school map supposed to erase these differences.
Find out more by clicking on this link.
