A month after the
“clumsy remark”
of the short-lived Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, since removed from this portfolio, it is the turn of Dominique Faure to commit
“an blunder”
.
Guest of the program “Sens politique” on France Culture on Saturday, the Minister for Local Authorities and Rural Affairs spoke about the
“waiting period”
of almost four weeks which extended between the two bursts of reshuffle.
Suspended by Emmanuel Macron's decision for almost four weeks, the minister admits not having been "
calm
" until her reappointment to the government.
Before daring a
“parallel”
with
“people who have been diagnosed with cancer and who wait for four weeks, sometimes five weeks, for the results to find out what form of cancer, how they will be treated, what risks they have”
.
“And so life learns patience
,” she concludes her analogy.
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“A competition of the most indecent”
Relaunched by the journalist, Dominique Faure maintains her comparison while nevertheless trying to temper it: “
[These are] absolutely not the same issues.
"And to try to escape a future controversy: "
When I heard some say to me: 'It's unbearable, it's unimaginable, it's unthinkable what he's inflicting on you, Mr. President of the Republic by making you wait four weeks”, 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””
.
But the sequence was quickly spotted and commented on by Internet users and part of the political class.
“
It makes you wonder if the ministers are not having a competition of the most indecent.
What have they experienced to be so beyond all common sense?
», was
indignant the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure on
whole, I explain the need to put this expectation into perspective in comparison to other, much more painful expectations.
» Socialist senator Laurence Rossignol saw it as “
only an explanation”: “Macronism has given itself the mission of fueling hatred of politics and democracy.
»
For his part, the deputy for Toulouse François Piquemal (LFI) attacked the former vice-president of Toulouse Métropole on the local level.
L’Insoumis denounced “
Moucronie (the country of Macron and Moudenc)”
[editor’s note, Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse]
.
“When we are not convicted of corruption like
Ms. Arribagé
[editor's note, deputy mayor of Toulouse convicted by the courts], we go on hazardous outings like those of Ms. Dominique Faure.
France, Toulouse and its metropolis deserve better!”
Anticipating the controversy, the minister presented her apologies on X on Sunday: “
Remarks 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.”