“I don’t know if Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is well placed” to handle this matter, asks Sylvain Maillard

“Perhaps there could be a shift”launched Thursday January 18 on franceinfo the president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly Sylvain Maillard, about the Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra whose children are educated in the private Parisian establishment Stanislas and who is accused of “drifts” in an official report. The main primary union, the SNUipp-FSU, mentioned Wednesday on franceinfo a possible “risk of conflict of interest”. Under the law of October 11, 2013 relating to transparency in public life, members of the government have the particular obligation to immediately put an end to any conflict of interest in the exercise of their functions. In the event of a risk, ministers must immediately take the necessary measures to defer or renounce the interests in question. A deportation decree is then issued. “I don’t know if it is well placed or not, I don’t know if there is a question of offset in this scenario, in any case, we have to find a solution”ruled the deputy from Paris.

Revealed Tuesday by Mediapartthe report points to “drifts” homophobic and sexist practices and practices that do not comply with the law in this private Catholic school. For Sylvain Maillard, if the “details” mentioned “in this report have taken place, it must be put back in order, and very quickly”. “The rectorate has largely taken up this and is already working with the establishment to ensure that these abuses are obviously eradicated”said the Renaissance representative from Paris. “There is a school of the Republic and it is the State which determines the organization and the educational content”, he insisted before emphasizing that if this was not the case, then “there is a withdrawal of approval” leading “to a school closure”.

While the City of Paris announced on Wednesday that it would temporarily suspend its financing of the establishment, pending “clarifications” from the State, in particular on the action plan requested from the establishment. For the 2022-2023 school year, the municipality had paid nearly 1.3 million euros for nursery schools , elementary schools and Stanislas college. Asked about the suspension of funding by the City of Paris, Sylvain Maillard declared that the town hall should not “to rule as a judge since she has no elements, except what the rectorate gives her”.