Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, faced with a series of controversies since she inherited National Education,
“has the confidence of the President of the Republic, of the Prime Minister”
, assured Sunday on France 3 Marie Lebec, minister delegate in charge Relations with Parliament.
According to several sources within the executive, the retention in her post of the Minister of National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic Games raises questions at the highest level of the State while new appointments to complete the government must take place Monday or Tuesday.
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Amélie Oudéa-Castéra
“carried out preparations for the Olympic Games with great success.
So I believe that the important thing today is to move forward and respond to what teachers are asking us” and this “beyond the question of the person”
, affirmed Marie Lebec who, at 33 years old, is the youngest minister in the new government.
The Snes-FSU, CGT and SUD unions called for a new strike in National Education on Tuesday to defend salaries and oppose educational policy at the college.
Teacher demonstrations Thursday
On Thursday, several thousand teachers and education staff demonstrated in Paris and in major cities in France to raise awareness about their working conditions, their salaries but also to defend public schools after controversial statements by Amélie Oudéa- Castéra on the subject.
Another hard blow for the minister, one of the highest executives of National Education, the rector of Paris, resigned on Friday, after the ministry's choice of a "moratorium" on part of its reform of prep classes, intended to introduce more social diversity.
On the reshuffle, Marie Lebec affirmed that the government was
“intended to be expanded, probably in the coming days
”.
“What is certain is that we must come to replace certain ministers who have very broad portfolios, I am thinking of
Catherine Vautrin
(Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity, editor’s note) or
Christophe Béchu
(Minister of Transition Ecological and Territorial Cohesion, editor's note)"
, which also has Housing and Transport under its control, indicated Marie Lebec.