“The school will be the mother of my government’s battles and I will be its guarantor.” During the transfer of power with his successor on Friday morning, Gabriel Attal did not pretend: National Education, Emmanuel Macron’s “absolute priority” since 2017, will be a private preserve shared by the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic. However, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, already holder of the portfolio of the Ministry of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, will have to multiply in 2024, an already busy year for her. He will now have to deal with the Ministry of National Education, a highly flammable powder keg.
A challenge which on paper should not frighten the former tennis champion, renowned for her “beautiful intellectual mechanics”, including among her political opponents. But the 45-year-old enarque, a member of the same promotion as Emmanuel Macron, will still have to learn to sleep less at night, like his two direct bosses.
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