The topic was expected.
This Tuesday, the session of questions to the government opened with a direct questioning of Jean-Michel Blanquer.
The Minister of National Education, already implicated in recent weeks, is once again under fire from criticism after Mediapart revealed his recent holidays in Ibiza - the place from which he gave his interview to
Parisian
about the new school health protocols.
Under the boos of some of the deputies, the member of the government tried to defend himself.
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“
What about your incomprehensible instructions?
(…) Your political fault is not for having taken a vacation, but for not having done your vacation homework by presenting earlier, and in a concerted manner, your protocol
, ”the MP first launched. The Republicans of Haute-Savoie, Virginie Duby-Muller.
"The Open School Policy"
"
We are in a difficult moment, let's never forget it, the Omicron variant has given us new problems
", reacted Jean-Michel Blanquer. Before articulating, not without difficulty, his arguments denouncing "
the attack on (s)a person
". “
Things are getting organised, more, better...
(...) Was I entitled to take a few days off after this year? Are there any meetings or items I had to do during this time that I didn't do because of it?
“, he thus pretended to question. “
Yes!
“, replied the parliamentarians opposite. “
No!
“retorted the minister. And to add:
Would my decisions have been different if I had been somewhere else?
No more.
»
The minister then recognized a "
symbolic
" error concerning his vacation spot.
“
I probably should have chosen another one.
The symbolism, I regret
it, ”he conceded.
“
But for the rest, for two years, with the majority, with my teams, we have held the open school policy
,” he added.
Before summoning his colleagues to focus on "
the essentials
" without getting lost "
in the accessory
".
