Amélie Oudéa-Castéra under fire from opposition deputies

Faced with repeated controversies since her appointment on January 11, the Minister of National Education presented her “road map” for more than two hours.

An avalanche of reproaches. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Education and Sports, had to face numerous criticisms from opposition deputies on Tuesday February 6, during a hearing before the Cultural Affairs and Education Committee in The national assembly.

“If you have become a symbol, it is that of another world, far, so far from the daily life of teachers and students in public schools”crushed the environmentalist deputy Jean-Claude Raux. “Each of your speeches is like a stab in the back”added his colleague Francesca Pasquini. “Me, my child, he is not in the private sector”, added National Rally MP Caroline Parmentier.

The threat of a reshuffle

Faced with repeated controversies since her appointment on January 11, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra presented for more than two hours her “roadmap”planning himself into his functions while the appointment of the second half of the Attal government is still awaited.

The hypothesis of François Bayrou returning to rue de Grenelle to replace her has been the subject of much speculation since his acquittal in the affair of the MoDem European parliamentary assistants. “We do not know if you are responding to us for a limited period, or if your responses commit the government beyond the reshuffle,” launched the socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte.

“Your words ring false”

Pinned for having educated her children in the conservative private institution Stanislas, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra promised a working group in committee “to ensure full, complete and effective application” secularism in private establishments.

“When you talk about social diversity, your words sound false”said environmentalist MP Sophie Taillé-Polian. “Do you plan to force private establishments that rely on social sorting, like Stanislas for example, to meet educational diversity objectives? Do you plan to ban this aberration that is single-sex classes?” further questioned Sarah Legrain, LFI deputy