Controversy around Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, reshuffle, vote of confidence… Jérôme Guedj’s “8:30 franceinfo”

The PS deputy for Essonne was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Saturday January 13, 2024.

Jérôme Guedj, PS deputy for Essonne and spokesperson for the Socialist Party, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Saturday January 13, 2024. Controversy around the schooling of the Minister of National Education’s children, reshuffle, vote of confidence… He answered questions from Agathe Lambret and Jean-Rémi Baudot.

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra’s justification: an “absolutely lunar” argument

“It is a form of social separatism which is consecrated” laments Jérôme Guedj after the comments of the new Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra concerning the schooling of his children in the private sector.

Friday, the minister explained that she transferred her children from a public establishment to a private one because of her “frustration” in front “packages of hours” teaching “which were not seriously replaced” during teacher absences. Jérôme Guedj judges this argument “absolutely lunar” and considers that he “illustrates the gigantic gap in the relationship to National Education”. He regrets that the minister made these remarks “with a form of resignation and acceptance”. For the PS deputy for Essonne, “behind this escape into the private sector, there is also the idea of ​​seeking a mutual connection, greater endogamy issues than in public school”. To compensate for the lack of teachers, he therefore pleads for “private education contributes to social diversity, to the school map”.

Jérôme Guedj also recognizes that his son “went into the private sector” at some point during his schooling “for different reasons”without expanding.

The Attal government, a “Sarkozy government”

In general, the spokesperson for the Socialist Party criticizes the entire new executive. He believes that it could have been “a Sarkozy government” which he says he sees “the tutelary shadow in the formation of this government”. For Jérôme Guedj, the reshuffle therefore puts an end to “to the illusion of macronism” and to the “fumistry” which, according to him, represents the “at the same time” advocated by Emmanuel Macron during the 2017 presidential election.

“We must put an end once and for all to this trick which consists of saying that the appointment of Gabriel Attal would be a signal sent to the left.”

Jérôme Guedj

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He specifies that if Gabriel Attal was, for a time, within the Socialist Party, he “made the choice in 2017 to join Emmanuel Macron’s adventure”. However, Jérôme Guedj maintains that we “cannot claim to be the heritage of the left when we carry out pension reform, unemployment insurance reform, when we decide on a tax policy which consists of impoverishing the State and depriving services essential public and when we have such an empty housing policy”. The PS spokesperson, however, sees “good news” through the appointment of the new executive, namely the rehabilitation “left-right divide” a few months before the European elections.

Without a vote of confidence, “we will support a motion of no confidence”

Jérôme Guedj maintains that if Gabriel Attal does “a general policy speech and submits it to a vote of confidence” then the socialists “will vote against”, and the deputy warns: “If [Gabriel Attal] does not have the courage to submit to the vote of confidence, we will support a motion of no confidence”.

La France insoumise has also threatened to table a motion of censure against the new government, if it does not seek the confidence of Parliament. Jérôime Guedj explains that the motion of censure “is the only way for parliamentarians to express themselves”.

“Democracy has been damaged quite a bit in the past year by 49.3.”

Jérôme Guedj

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Jérôme Guedj also regrets that this speech has still not been announced. “It’s Saturday, the Prime Minister was appointed during the week and I still don’t know when he will make a general policy speech”he insists.

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Watch the entire 8:30 a.m. franceinfo broadcast on Saturday January 13: