Mea culpa.
Dominique Faure, the Minister of Local Authorities and Rural Affairs reappointed to her post during the last reshuffle, recognized on Sunday evening "an awkwardness" after her comments made during an interview the day before on France Culture.
“If anyone felt hurt by my words, I regret it and apologize to them,” she wrote on her X account (formerly Twitter).
Comments I made yesterday on France Culture caused a lot of discussion.
I recognize an awkwardness.
If anyone felt hurt by my words, I regret it and apologize to them.
— Dominique Faure (@FaureDominique) February 18, 2024
Asked in the program “Sens politique” about how she experienced the four weeks of waiting before knowing whether she was reappointed or not, Dominique Faure spoke of “a waiting period”.
Before adding: “Like people who have been diagnosed with cancer, and who sometimes have to wait four, five weeks for the results of the analyzes to find out what form of cancer, how they will be treated, what risks they have. .
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This parallel allows her to draw the lesson that “life teaches patience,” she explains.
“It’s not absolutely the same issues,” added the former deputy for Haute-Garonne in the process.
Why am I comparing them?
I'm simply saying that life teaches you to put things into perspective.
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“What indecency”
The comparison, clumsy, did not fail to provoke a reaction.
The minister particularly attracted the wrath of Olivier Faure.
“One wonders if the ministers are not having a competition of the most indecent,” wrote the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) on X the next day, sharing an extract from the interview.
“What have they been through to be so beyond all common sense?
", he added.
“I only see one explanation: macronism has given itself the mission of fueling the detestation of politics and democracy,” said socialist senator Laurence Rossignol on she castigated the “indecency” of the minister.
.@faureolivier, what bad faith!
It would be a question of putting the extracts in full if you wish to quote me!
My message is clear if you want to listen to it in full, I explain the need to put this expectation into perspective in comparison to other expectations that are much more… https://t.co/piaolSD9S9 pic.twitter.com/zrTRGE9mXH
— Dominique Faure (@FaureDominique) February 18, 2024
After Olivier Faure's message, the minister tweeted to denounce his "bad faith".
“It would be a question of putting the extracts in full if you wish to quote me”, tackled Dominique Faure, sharing a longer extract from his interview: “When I heard some tell me, it’s
unbearable, it’s unimaginable , it is unthinkable what the President of the Republic is doing to you by making you wait 4 weeks
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I told them, these words seem excessive to me compared to other people who are waiting and who are faced with much more serious things.
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“My message is clear if you want to listen to it in full,” the minister comments in her tweet, “I explain the need to put this expectation into perspective in comparison to other, much more painful expectations.
» Despite this message and in the face of the controversy which continued to swell, Dominique Faure finally presented his “apologies” in the evening.