The agreement between Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal does not seem not always optimal. After a long wait, the President of the Republic and his Prime Minister announced, on Friday February 9, the complete list ministers, delegated ministers and secretaries of state making up the government. Nicole Belloubet therefore took head of the Ministry of National Education, succeeding Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, which retained Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. However, according to information from Opinionfrom this Monday, February 12, the appointment of the former Minister of Justice would be a choice of Emmanuel Macronwhile “the Prime Minister preferred his deputy chief of staffFanny Anor, from the Institut Montaigne”. According to a specialist in the microcosm of education, this decision is a way for the Head of State to reframe Gabriel Attal.
“You didn’t want Bayrou? You’re going to have to deal with a former socialist rector, explains the expert. Until now, Attal was freewheeling. There, it smells like reframing.” According to the newspaper, the “way of managing the governmental ambitions of François Bayrou has not not approved by the Élysée”. While the head of MoDem was expected to join the government, he preferred to refuse fault “strongly agree on the policy to follow”. Emmanuel Macron had already criticized his Prime Minister, as reported The Express, on February 8. “When it comes to negotiating with the FNSEA, with the unions, he gets his feet stuck in the carpet ; negotiate with Bayrou who has been in a power struggle for forty years, he can’t do it either… But he never did that, I can’t blame him”, declared the President of the Republic.
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After being relaxed “for the benefit of the doubt” in the case of fictitious MoDem jobs, François Bayrou hoped to inherit the Ministry of National Educationwhich he already held in the 1990s. In Matignon, while the Prime Minister reminded him of the road map to follow, according to the JDDFrançois Bayrou would have ended up telling him that he could not “not implement this policy”. Gabriel Attal would also have thought of making a place for him at the Ministry of the Armed Forces. A position that would not have not delighted with the president of MoDem. The latter explained to AFP that “defense is the sector which, in French politics, is doing the best [s]your eyes”. An agreement between the two men therefore seemed impossible.
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