The successive blunders and controversies surrounding the new Minister of Education annoy the executive. Will Macron remove him from the government?
In less than two weeks at the head of the Ministry of National Education and Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has had a series of mishaps and controversies. Since his declarations of January 12 on the “package of hours” not replaced at the Littré public school, until the publication this Tuesday, January 23 of a report from the parliamentary commission of inquiry on sports federations, the former tennis player takes the government into a whirlwind of controversy. To the point of soon being excluded?
“The first week of the Attal I government is a fiasco,” comments a member of the presidential majority with the JDD. The appointment of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has a lot to do with it. Is Emmanuel Macron planning to demand the departure of the Minister of National Education and Sports? “He could take advantage of the second wave of appointments from the reshuffle” to separate himself from it, suggests an interlocutor of the Head of State to Politico. However, the head of state “does not like to act under pressure”, notes this same source.
The first controversy surrounding Amélie Oudéa-Castéra concerned the schooling of her children at the private Parisian Catholic school Stanislas, an establishment singled out by the Ministry of Education for its reactionary speeches. The minister added fuel to the fire by explaining this choice by the “package of hours” not replaced at the Littré public school, where her eldest son had been educated for six months. Statements ultimately contradicted by the establishment’s staff. A few days later, Médiapart revealed that the minister’s son had taken advantage of a bypass of the Parcoursup platform to join a preparatory class at the Stanislas high school.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is now singled out by a report from the parliamentary commission of inquiry into sports federations, for her past activities as general director of the French Tennis Federation and then as Minister of Sports.
