As Covid-19 cases multiply by the thousands, tension is mounting in government departments. If facing the cameras, Olivier Véran and Jean-Michel Blanquer brave the questions of journalists in chorus, in the private sphere, the relationship between two politicians is much less joyful.
Times are tough for Jean-Michel Blanquer. While he is in the crosshairs of education unions, parents and the opposition who rebel against the health protocol implemented in schools and revealed a few hours before the start of the school year, in a paid article in Le Parisien, the minister also has to face the irritation of his colleagues. While he could have taken comfort from members of the government, who are going through the health crisis in a similar way, it is not.
Lately, the climate would be tense Between Jean-Michel Blanquer and Olivier Véran. “There was a little tension in the tube, but it doesn’t go any further“, reports a source from the Ministry of Solidarity and Health Parisian, this Wednesday January 12. If the year does not start off in the best possible way for the minister, he needs more to lose his means. “I have a wide back, I have seen others“, does he usually respond to his detractors.
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Sanitary protocol in schools: Jean-Michel Blanquer defends himself
As the daily writes, “the minister carries a totem” the fact of not having been forced to close schools again during this fifth wave, marked by the Omicron variant. And while he seems proud of his achievement, in the ranks of the president, as for parents and teachers, the protocol and its consequences are far from being up to par. “It’s a little paradoxical to pass for Père Fouettard which puts constraints that I am asked to pose, while I am doing everything for now the open school“, he defends himself in the private sphere.
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