members of the majority are pushing for “that she quickly catches up”

The controversy born, Friday, January 12, from comments deemed “awkward” or even “scandalous” by the new Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic Games has taken on such a dimension that she is now invited by a a good part of the presidential camp to correct the situation themselves. “She must quickly catch up, annoys a former minister. I don’t even understand why she hasn’t done it already.”

“Spontaneous and clumsy interventions happen… but they can be corrected, completes a pillar of macronia. She thinks a little about the parents who are not like her and her multimillionaire husband and who cannot protect their children in private. ?” “Her priority now must be public schools and we haven’t heard her yetadds a power communicator, not very surprised by this first outing: She doesn’t have a good handle on the media world.”

The video in question already has more than ten million views. “Now everyone has understood that it was a good right-wing government”annoys someone close to François Bayrou, distant predecessor of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.

Gabriel Attal had anticipated the problem… for himself

No official comment to Matignon, but you had to see the glance from the Prime Minister to a deputy placed just behind Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, during the declaration which ignited the powder: you could sense his embarrassment. He himself had anticipated this question: “They’re going to bother me with my private schooling”he confided to his team, according to The world, just before his arrival at rue de Grenelle. So much so that on July 20, at the time of the transfer of power to the Ministry of Education, he anticipated the possible controversy: “Yes, I went to private school. I don’t have to deny or apologize for the choice my parents made back then, like millions of parents do every year. I do not believe that the fight should be to criticize the parents who make this choice. The fight, on the contrary, is to guarantee that the school, the whole school, can provide parents, all parents, with the essential of what they expect for their children.”

Matignon would like to turn the page this weekend: an interview with Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is planned tomorrow, Sunday. But whatever happens, this first controversy weakens it. She, who has no experience in the teaching world, who is in the eyes of the unions above all the Minister of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, was already facing a certain skepticism, especially as she is the fourth Minister of the Education in two years.

“Sacred handicap”

From now on, she has a wall of criticism in front of her. Whether it is parents’ associations, teachers’ unions, opposition leaders from Marine Le Pen to Olivier Faure… “To imply, from day one, that she prefers private to public, there is nothing worse, laments a ministerial advisor. She’s leaving with quite a handicap, I don’t know if she’ll make up for it.”.

His first face-to-face meetings with the unions should take place next week. The former tennis player will have to take care of her backhand.