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A DAY IN POLITICS. Lionel Jospin’s turbulent Minister of National Education was strong during his first days on rue de Grenelle. It will last three years.
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Par Florent Barraco
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Lhe first days of a new minister are decisive and scrutinized. There are the discreet, the cautious – “Chi va piano va sano e va lontano” – and the bulldozers. Claude Allègre is one of the latter. It jostles, provokes, soothes, revives, stirs up, slices. Appointed Minister of National Education by Lionel Jospin, who arrived in Matignon after the failed dissolution of 1997, the geochemist stands out compared to his predecessor, François Bayrou. The centrist marked his passage rue de Grenelle by a certain passivity. Allègre wants to change everything.
During the handover, a moment of rare insincerity in normal times, Claude Allègre certainly welcomes a balance sheet “in the continuity of what had been done under Lionel Jospin [ministre de l’Éducation entre 1988 et 1992, NDLR]most…
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