The Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, denounced a “class contempt” in the reactions aroused by her arrival at this position where she was not expected, in an interview with Parisian posted online Saturday January 13. “I don’t care about the comments on my nomination, even if I sometimes also see class contempt in them“affirmed the minister, who announced that she wanted “relaunch municipal conservatories accessible to all, theater for young people” or “Houses of Youth and Culture (MJC)”. She declared that she wanted to fight for public broadcasting “powerful”. Rachida Dati also assured that she would remain mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, with the municipal elections in mind, but denied any electoral agreement with President Emmanuel Macron. Follow our live stream.
Stéphane Séjourné is in Berlin on Sunday and in Warsaw on Monday. The head of French diplomacy, who was in kyiv on Saturday, will travel to Germany on Sunday and to Poland on Monday to meet his counterparts and advance Ukrainian issues within European bodies, his entourage told AFP.
First demonstrations since the new composition of the government. Nice, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand… Demonstrations are planned for Sunday in several cities in France for the withdrawal of the immigration law, adopted in mid-December by Parliament. A first since the arrival of Gabriel Attal in Matignon, who is going to a market in Caen (Calvados). The Wise Men must also judge on January 25 whether the voted text is consistent with the Constitution.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra “regrets” her comments about public schools. The Minister of Education “regret” having “could have injured certain public education teachers” and assures that she will be “always” to “sides” of “public school and its teachers”, in a statement sent to AFP on Saturday. Just appointed, she caused controversy by justifying on Friday her decision to transfer her children to the private sector by her “frustration” in front “packages of hours” teaching staff not replaced during teacher absences from public schools.