In the midst of a storm since the revelations of Mediapart on his holidays in Ibiza between Christmas and New Year’s Day, Jean-Michel Blanquer faces a week at high risk for his political destiny. This Tuesday afternoon, during questions to the government in the National Assembly, the minister is awaited at the turn by the oppositions who will demand accounts from him on the choice of this holiday resort during the holidays, the very place where he has granted an interview – by telephone – to our newspaper to unveil the new health protocol in schools for the start of the school year. And Thursday, January 20, it is a second round of strikes and demonstrations from the teaching staff and the parents of students that he will have to face after the first day of mobilization last Thursday.
It has been two weeks since the Minister of National Education has been weakened, cornered on all sides as the testing measures imposed in schools turn out to be a gas plant. “Blanquer, resign! “, thunder all the political opponents.
Few people taken into the confidence
“I have a broad back”, slipped there is little in small committee, while refusing to “play the bogeyman fathers”. On the government side, everyone unites to save Private Blanquer. “In Ibiza he was with long-time friends who have a house. He was not there to party and Matignon was obviously informed of his vacation spot. Right in his boots, this close friend of the Macron couple does not intend to deviate from his line. As he does not intend to upset his agenda despite the controversies… including on a personal level.
According to our information, the Minister of National Education even married last weekend, discreetly and in a small committee, with the journalist Anna Cabana. Their relationship was revealed in July 2020 by the people press. Since then, the couple has observed relative discretion. Few people, even among their relatives, have been taken into the confidence of this official union.