Is it a slip of the tongue or simple clumsiness?
While the “questions to the government” were held this Tuesday in the National Assembly, a session where members of the government were questioned by opposition deputies, the Minister responsible for Children, Youth and Families Sarah El Haïry was tasked with responding to EELV elected official Sandrine Rousseau on the issue of Child Welfare.
In response to the environmentalist who denounced the lack of resources in the sector, the minister retorted that
“child protection deserved better”
.
“Don’t throw clean water on all professionals,”
said the member of the executive.
She did not realize her error, visibly getting confused between two well-known metaphors: “Throwing out shame” and “Throwing out the baby with the bathwater”.
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And the awkwardness does not stop there, since it will be repeated in the rest of his remarks.
“We will never deny that there are essential needs but do not throw clean water on family assistants, on specialized educators, on the departments,”
Sarah El Haïry then insisted, raising her voice against her opponent.
Who, in the fervor of his joust, did not seem to notice the error of his opponent.
For now, the MoDem representative has not returned to this episode.
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If the syntax error may seem trivial, even slight, its production in the middle of the Hemicycle obviously gives it an unequaled resonance.
An error reminiscent of the syntax problems of the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné.
“It will be an opportunity to see for us what the Ukrainians need”
or
“the 'fundamental' principles of international law
,” he declared during trips abroad.
Mocked on social networks, the boss of the Renaissance party then justified his errors by dyslexia problems in an interview with Le
Parisien
.
“Through work and rehabilitation, I almost erased all of my oral defects,”
he explained.
However, it comes back when there is a moment of fatigue or significant stress, and I can’t do anything about it.”