Before Emmanuel Macron’s big press conference, the minister of Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, is trying to put an end to the controversy linked to the schooling of her children within the Stanislas private school group. The minister went at the Littré public school, from where she had withdrawn her eldest son, Tuesday January 16, “to meet the teachers and the management team of the establishment, and exchange with them”, according to the minister’s entourage. She was greeted with boos and a chorus of pots and pans. Follow our live stream.
Emmanuel Macron addresses the French at 8:15 p.m. The meeting takes place in the middle of the television news, with the aim of reaching as many people as possible. The Head of State will try to define the main lines of action that he intends to implement with his new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal.
Expected announcements. In front of hundreds of journalists, the Head of State will first make a number of announcements on the “rearmament” economic and civic of France, in an introductory speech lasting around fifteen minutes. He will then answer a barrage of questions, particularly on the first steps of the new government team. “The president will discuss national subjects, which interest the French, but will also talk about international issues”declares the Elysée to franceinfo, without giving further details.
The Amélie Oudéa-Castéra case. Emmanuel Macron will not escape questions about the first crisis which is already undermining “regeneration” of the second five-year term, regarding the private schooling of the children of the new Minister of Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.