The boat capsized but was not yet completely taking on water. The adoption of the immigration law, toughened by the right, created turmoil in the government. After the announcement of the resignation of Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau, we learned that the Minister of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, also presented a departure letter. But his resignation was refused, according to his entourage, cited by AFP.
This resignation presented on the sidelines of the council of ministers “was refused” and the minister will remain “in post”, specified the same source. President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne “assured the minister that the measures concerning students” in this law “would be revised if they were not censored by the Constitutional Council”.
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“That it offends certain parliamentarians, that it offends ministers, that it upsets you, it’s legitimate,” said Emmanuel Macron, questioned on the immigration law in the program “C à Vous” on France 5 on Wednesday evening. . He thus affirmed to “respect” the resignation of his Minister of Health, in disagreement with the text adopted painfully following a compromise with the right endorsed at the last minute by the National Rally.
“There is no crisis in the majority,” assured Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on France Inter on Wednesday morning. “There is no movement of ministerial revolt”, also put into perspective the government spokesperson Olivier Véran after a Council of Ministers marked by the absence of Aurélien Rousseau, former chief of staff of Élisabeth Borne at Matignon .