From Pap Ndiaye to Gabriel Attal, then Gabriel Attal to Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, and finally from Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to Nicole Belloubet.
Four Ministers of National Education in less than eight months.
Enough to make the opposition dizzy, who must each time adapt to a new personality.
And therefore to a new political line.
With the appointment of the former Minister of Justice on Thursday evening, the right and the National Rally found their new target.
In question, his policy as Keeper of the Seals, between 2017 and 2020, which they consider too lax, as well as his controversial remarks about the young Mila at the beginning of 2020, which emerged on occasion.
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As a reminder, this young high school student had violently criticized Islam on social networks.
A charge which had sparked a flood of hateful comments and death threats, leading this teenager to live under police protection for four years.
On Europe 1, Nicole Belloubet had clearly distanced herself from the young woman, affirming, contrary to the firmness displayed by part of the government, that
“insulting religion is obviously an attack on the freedom of conscience, it’s serious.”
Aware of her error, she backpedaled a few days later, indicating that
“the Mila affair has brought to light the question of the right to blasphemy.”
And that
“this right existed”
.
But whatever the explanations, the damage was done.
“Worse than AOC”
What the right-wingers did not fail to point out on Thursday evening.
For the president of the RN Jordan Bardella, the arrival of Nicole Belloubet Rue de Grenelle
“is a disastrous signal, at a time when the School needs a boost to be saved.”
A sign, according to the nationalist MEP, of a
“macronie at the end of the line”
.
Others in his camp are more ironic.
Like the RN deputy for Vaucluse Laure Lavalette.
“We wondered how they would manage to find a worse Minister of National Education than Amélie Oudéa-Castera,”
criticized the elected Frontist
.
Incredible but true: an ex-socialist who mocks authority, abandons Mila and takes advantage of Covid to empty the prisons.
As for the Republicans, they are not being more lenient with the new minister in the Attal government.
The leader of the LR senators in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, thus decried
“one of the most lax Ministers of Justice of the Fifth Republic” “The return of authority to school is not for tomorrow ...»
.
While she will have to rub shoulders with the oppositions, in the cauldron of the next Questions to the government, here is Nicolas Belloubet warned.