This is one of the (many) controversies that have accompanied the redesign.
On Monday July 4, when the new government was announced following the legislative elections, observers did not fail to underline a major change of direction compared to the previous five-year term: endowed with a full-fledged ministry under the previous five-year term, the Overseas Territories came under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior.
After Annick Girardin and Sébastien Lecornu from 2017 to 2022, then the ephemeral Yaël Braun-Pivet, the former prefect Jean-François Carenco was appointed Minister Delegate in charge of Overseas.
This decision immediately caused a scandal in the opposition, and in particular the ultramarine opposition.
Some, like the Reunionese deputy (LFI) Perceval Gaillard, castigated the amalgamation between the security question and the daily management of the two million French people living outside mainland France.
Others, like Victorin Lurel, former Socialist Minister for Overseas Territories under François Hollande, see this decision as an "
electoral punishment
", after the very high scores of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and then Marine Le Pen in the presidential election. .
Still others have denounced
the "contempt
" of what they believe to be a demotion.
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On Tuesday morning, on France Inter, the new government spokesman Olivier Véran justified this controversial decision by arguing that the Ministry of the Interior is not only responsible for security and maintaining order, but also "
of the reform of institutions and the question of communities
".
"
And these two issues concern a number of overseas territories
," he said.
According to him, placing the Overseas Territories under the authority of the Interior is therefore not necessarily synonymous with supervision and regression.
But is this really the case?
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