Since a few months, we can observe how some of our Ministers are dealing with their tasks.
After the disastrous reforms of secondary school made by our Minister of Education, Mr Xavier DARCOS and the collapse of the statutory order (decree) modifying the status of university professors-researchers managed by Mrs Valérie PECRESSE, Minister of Higher Education and Research, it's time for Mr Yves JEGO, Overseas Territory Secretrary of State, to shine with is incapability of dealing with a global strike in Guadeloupe !
Today Matigon is facing a repetition of mistakes and has found judicious to name some mediators who are in fact " crisis managers" to trying to help overwhelmed Ministers and to find solutions to the crises.
After Mr DARCOS' speech on the will of the governement to reform a part of the secondary education's system, the demonstrations of secondary school pupils were so important that the Minister postponed his reform for 2010. In this way, he was helped by Mr Richard DESCOINGS, the director of Sciences Po Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies). However Mr DARCOS does not lose face telling he designed Mr DESCOINGS to assist him.
Mrs PECRESSE, also in great difficulty with the professor's strike and unable to negociate, has also named an "indepedant mediator", Mrs Claire BAZY-MALAURIE. Her work is to re-build the decree modifying the university professor's status instead of throwing it in the bin and think about an other way to reform French Universities.
At last it is Mr. JEGO with an exceptionnal failure in the way he dealt with the global strike in Guadeloupe island which started on the 20th January. First of all he landed on the island twelve days after the beginning of the strike and escaped on the quiet from it five days later, realizing he was unable in finding out a way out of the crisis. So Mr JEGO is now seconded by not only one but two mediators with the responsabilities of correcting mistakes and negociating.
And now a little bonus...Mr Bernard LAPORTE our former Sports and Youth Secretary of State (yes that's really what he was) is now dispossessed by Mr SARKOZY of the "sector" Youth of his Secretary of State. The main reason for this decision is an absence of Mr LAPORTE in the political scene and the sanction is not the intervention of a mediator but a dispossession. Mr Martin HIRSCH, the High Commisioner in the field of solidarities, wins a new task : dealing with Youth in France. But when looking at the work of Mr LAPORTE we can easily find out that it is not a big loss for us (Could you give at least one important work he made ?).
Well, what can we say apart from : Who's next ?
After the disastrous reforms of secondary school made by our Minister of Education, Mr Xavier DARCOS and the collapse of the statutory order (decree) modifying the status of university professors-researchers managed by Mrs Valérie PECRESSE, Minister of Higher Education and Research, it's time for Mr Yves JEGO, Overseas Territory Secretrary of State, to shine with is incapability of dealing with a global strike in Guadeloupe !
Today Matigon is facing a repetition of mistakes and has found judicious to name some mediators who are in fact " crisis managers" to trying to help overwhelmed Ministers and to find solutions to the crises.
After Mr DARCOS' speech on the will of the governement to reform a part of the secondary education's system, the demonstrations of secondary school pupils were so important that the Minister postponed his reform for 2010. In this way, he was helped by Mr Richard DESCOINGS, the director of Sciences Po Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies). However Mr DARCOS does not lose face telling he designed Mr DESCOINGS to assist him.
Mrs PECRESSE, also in great difficulty with the professor's strike and unable to negociate, has also named an "indepedant mediator", Mrs Claire BAZY-MALAURIE. Her work is to re-build the decree modifying the university professor's status instead of throwing it in the bin and think about an other way to reform French Universities.
At last it is Mr. JEGO with an exceptionnal failure in the way he dealt with the global strike in Guadeloupe island which started on the 20th January. First of all he landed on the island twelve days after the beginning of the strike and escaped on the quiet from it five days later, realizing he was unable in finding out a way out of the crisis. So Mr JEGO is now seconded by not only one but two mediators with the responsabilities of correcting mistakes and negociating.
And now a little bonus...Mr Bernard LAPORTE our former Sports and Youth Secretary of State (yes that's really what he was) is now dispossessed by Mr SARKOZY of the "sector" Youth of his Secretary of State. The main reason for this decision is an absence of Mr LAPORTE in the political scene and the sanction is not the intervention of a mediator but a dispossession. Mr Martin HIRSCH, the High Commisioner in the field of solidarities, wins a new task : dealing with Youth in France. But when looking at the work of Mr LAPORTE we can easily find out that it is not a big loss for us (Could you give at least one important work he made ?).
Well, what can we say apart from : Who's next ?
I wish the next one to be dispossessed of any kind of governmental power would be Sarkozy but i'm afraid it'll remain a wishful thinking for quite a while... Nice post Zoe, and you're right about Bernard Laporte : like a few of other people Sarkozy picked, I guess he was just put in the government just for the 'see-how-open-and-cool-i-am-putting-people-from-the mass-in-my-government' communication strategy of Sarkozy.
RépondreSupprimerIf I had read a post like yours, Zoé, while I was studying French last year, I would have been a lot better informed about French ministers and their crazy schemes! I have to say I can't name as many British ministers as you probably can French, but I doubt we're much more competent in the UK!
RépondreSupprimerOh just one thing: In your opening sentence, say "For a few months, we have observed / we have been observing"
RépondreSupprimerThe word "for" often replaces French "durant, pendant, depuis"...
I just wanted to tell that Bernard Laporte is not a member of my family!!
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