Amélie Oudéa-Castéra discovers class struggle. Accused of lying, the minister with the dual portfolio, that of Education and that of Youth and Sports, has become the target of oppositions from both the right and the left who are demanding her resignation this Monday. Promoted last week to Education, the minister justified the registration of her sons in a prestigious Parisian private school by blaming “lots of hours not seriously replaced”.
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Fake, according to the newspaper Release, who explains this choice by a desire to make the eldest of the siblings skip a class. “A lie that disqualifies her,” said LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard on France Info. “The days pass and the lies accumulate,” also reacted the boss of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, in a message on [était] time to resign.” Just like the MP (EELV) Sandrine Rousseau, who wrote on the same social network: “We must leave now, Madam”.
At the other end of the political spectrum, the deputy (RN), Julien Odoul, also lashed out at these “ministers who blithely lie like Amélie Oudéa-Castéra”, judging that she is already “discredited” and “ that she should leave.”
“I don’t know if she lied”
When questioned, government spokesperson Prisca Thévenot commented on France Inter: “I don’t know if she lied, I’m just saying that she explained why her son was educated in the private sector.” Just like the leader of the majority deputies, Sylvain Maillard, affirming on Sud Radio that Amélie Oudéa-Castéra “was very clear” in explaining “why she wanted to change” from public to private.
Visiting a public school in the 18th arrondissement of Paris this Monday morning, the minister initially refrained from reacting to the latest revelations concerning her. A little later, after a visit to the Olympic village of Saint-Denis, she, on the other hand, asked the press to “close” the “chapter of personal attacks”. “I do not want to go further into the area of personal life and private life,” she continued. There are attacks to which I have tried to respond as sincerely as possible. »