On Thursday evening, no name of Minister of National Education appeared in the list revealed in the media, which was supposedly proposed by Michel Barnier to Emmanuel Macron. Could Nicole Belloubet be reappointed?
Minister of the Interior, Health, Family, Discrimination, Ecology… On Thursday evening, Michel Barnier met Emmanuel Macron for about fifty minutes to propose a list of names to form his government. In the process, the names that were supposedly mentioned were broadcast in the media. And if The Parisian revealed late in the evening the name mentioned to take over the Ministry of Justice, that of the potential future Minister of National Education, itself, never came out.
Notably absent from this famous list, could the name of the next Minister of Education have been forgotten because the position would ultimately remain in the hands of Nicole Belloubet? The question may be asked. On August 27, the resigning Minister of National Education had in any case not ruled out the possibility of remaining in office: “You are never a candidate for a ministerial position. But if you ask me if I want to continue, the answer is yes. I am also capable of going mushroom picking in the fall,” she explained, not without humor.
But while only one “diverse left” figure would be named in this government, Didier Migaud was already listed Thursday evening at the Ministry of Justice. Enough to definitively remove the ex-socialist Nicole Belloubet from the race? Surprisingly, there seemed to be few candidates still in the running for this ministry. Indeed, if Annie Genevard’s name had come up in recent days, she would ultimately be tipped to inherit the Ministry of Agriculture, according to The Parisian or even BFMTV. Then there remains the Dati hypothesis. The resigning Minister of Culture was mentioned at the end of the day Thursday at the National Education, as relayed in particular by the journalist Hugo Couturier on X. However, The Parisian assured at the end of the evening that she was rather on the way to being reinstated to her ministry…