The Oudéa-Castéra controversy raises the question of the minister’s family ties with the media Duhamel-Saint-Cricq family – Libération

Since the appointment of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to the post of Minister of National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, her family ties with the Duhamels (Alain and Benjamin) or Nathalie Saint-Cricq have been highlighted fingers on social networks.

Is there a conflict of interest due to cousinship? Can a political journalist comment on the career (and in this case the setbacks) of a member of his family? The question arises with the tumult following the appointment of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra at the head of a gigantic Ministry of National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic Games. While Mediapart had revealed that the children were being educated privately in the Stanislas Catholic establishment, the minister justified this by evoking a “package of unreplaced hours» at public school, where she had initially placed her eldest child. Problem, according to information obtained by Release, The minister’s decision took place after her eldest child spent six months in a small section class in the Littré public nursery school. The teacher in charge of the little boy disputed the version according to which she was too absent to teach her lessons.

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