2023-12-21 23:02:24
She is a second member of the government who shows her opposition to the Immigration law, after Aurélien Rousseau. The Minister of Higher Education Sylvie Retailleau presented her resignation on Wednesday to Emmanuel Macron, due to a “deep disagreement” on the measures concerning students in the immigration law, but she was refused, announced her entourage Thursday.
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 Élisabeth Borne “assured the minister that the measures concerning students” in this law “would be revised if they were not censored by the Constitutional Council”.
Upcoming resignations?
On Tuesday, the Immigration law was passed painfully following a compromise with the right endorsed at the last minute by the National Rally. When Marine Le Pen announced that she would vote for the bill, a handful of ministers saw red. Clément Beaune (Transport), Roland Lescure (Industry), Patrice Vergriete (Housing) Rima Abdul-Malak (Culture), and Sylvie Retailleau (Higher Education).
“That it offends certain parliamentarians, that it offends ministers, that it upsets you, it’s legitimate,” said Wednesday evening Emmanuel Macron, guest of the program “C à Vous” on France 5 live from the Élysée . He thus said “respect” the resignation of his Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau, in disagreement with the text adopted Tuesday evening.
“There is no crisis in the majority,” Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne assured Wednesday on France Inter. “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 .
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