With the announcement of the new Covid protocols at school, has Jean-Michel Blanquer tripped up? The teachers’ strike, which promises to be massive this Thursday, complicates the political situation for the Minister of National Education, who is at the heart of criticism.
Too complicated protocols, poor communication, Jean-Michel Blanquer multiplied the errors at the start of the January school year in the face of the fed up with teachers and parents. Jean Castex’s demining attempt at the start of the week with the announcement of new procedures failed to calm things down, analysis Valerie Gas, of the Politics department.
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” An icebreaker stuck in the ice “
In Emmanuel Macron’s entourage, we try to minimize the disavowal by explaining that when decisions concern millions of people, it is not surprising that the Prime Minister gets involved, while recognizing that it is “ not easy “For Jean-Michel Blanquer at the moment, that he is a bit like” an icebreaker stuck in the ice “And specifying that” from the start “, The president understood that the Covid device at school was” too heavy “.
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Is Jean-Michel Blanquer weakened politically? He is one of those ministers ” symbolic “Emmanuel Macron maintained over time, but which concentrate the attacks of the opposition and do not necessarily achieve unanimity in the majority. His relations are particularly difficult with the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. But at the Élysée, we do not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and we affirm that the educational policy remains to be put to the credit of the five-year term.