The strong mobilization of teachers during the strike Thursday has overtaken the executive, who can not afford to see the movement degenerate, to three months of the presidential election. The head of state is trying to dissociate himself from the minister of education but it is too late for him to play the fuses.
In and
The main hazard of a presidential campaign, it’s the unexpected. This adage, that keeps in mind the presidential majority to guard against complacency, was confirmed Thursday, January 13. No one at the top of the state, no one anticipated a national strike of teachers and education personnel. No one had imagined that the movement would be followed by 31% of teachers, according to the count of the Ministry of Education, and over 60% of them, according to the unions, putting nearly 80,000 protesters in the street according to the Ministry of interior. Even more disturbing, less than a hundred days of the first round of the presidential election, no one predicted that the representatives of parents would be associated with the exasperation of teachers facing a health protocol deemed too heavy, too complex and moving too.
Now the executive is concerned that the movement for the time related to the health crisis escalates and relays deepest anger smoldering in education. A subject conducive to ignite as a result of the presidential campaign. Already in the midst of the teachers pounding the pavement in Paris, the candidate of the rebellious France (BIA), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, did not fail to accuse the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer have “to half demolished school, “when Yannick Jadot, candidate of Europe Ecology-Greens (EELV), called to stop” abusing teachers. “
In an interview with Parisien , Damien Abad adviser Valerie Pécresse, candidate for the party’s republicans (LR), also accused the minister of education to have created “a big mess in school” while lambasting broader stock of five-year Emmanuel Macron. “On the reform of the tank and the high school, the goal was simplification, the result is a situation as complex as before. He failed to make education a means of social advancement. Today ‘ hui, equal opportunity is a sham and social advancement is an illusion, “attack the MP for the Ain
“Moving forward”
To turn off as soon as the incipient fire, Prime Minister Jean Castex, received late Thursday afternoon, the unions of education personnel and the associations of parents. The meeting, which was held at the Ministry of Education “in the presence”, in the words of Matignon Minister Jean Michel Blanquer, also included the Minister of Health, Olivier Veran, videoconference, having been tested positive for Covid-19.
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