The Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau presented her resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, due to a “deep disagreement” on the measures concerning students in the immigration law, but this one been refused.
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The resignation of Sylvie Retailleau, presented on the sidelines of the Council of Ministers, “was refused” and the minister “remains in post”, those around her told Agence France Presse. If a minister wishes to leave office, this does not however, does not require approval of the government or the President of the Republic.
The President of the Republic and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne “assured the minister that the measures concerning students” in this law, in particular the deposit required from foreign students, “would be revised if they were not censored by the Constitutional Council ”, according to those around him. Emmanuel Macron judged Wednesday evening in the show C to youon France 5, that this guarantee was “not not a good idea “, but that the provisions which did not please ” did not justify blocking everything “.
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After the adoption of this controversial lawTuesday, with the voices of the right and the extreme right, Sylvie Retailleau had “ reminded the Prime Minister of her deep disagreement on the measures concerning students ”, according to her office, then she heard the “ doubts » expressed on this subject by Elisabeth Borne on France Inter on Wednesday morning.
Physicist, Sylvie Retailleau, 58, was new to politics when she became Minister of Higher Education and Research in May 2022 after heading the prestigious Paris-Saclay University. She succeeded in this ministry from Frédérique Vidal, another academic. She is notably in charge of Parcoursup, the often contested post-baccalaureate guidance tool, and her main battle is to upgrade student scholarships, to fight against the precariousness of young people.
A new Minister of Health
Other ministers expressed their unease after the adoption of the immigration law. Five of them met at a dinner on Tuesday evening to discuss their position and a possible resignation if the highly contested text of the “immigration” law was adopted, at the invitation of Clément Beaune, Minister of Transport. The Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau left the government irrevocably, also in disagreement with this text. He is replaced by Agnès Firmin Le Bodo. Pharmacist, this one is “ targeted by a judicial investigation opened in June 2023 for having received gifts, without declaring them », writes the online information site Mediapart.
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