She had just been appointed. In January 2023, as the then deputy of the Côte d’Or department and chair of the Social Affairs Committee in the National Assembly, she had made what she considered to be an ironic statement.
“I will put the church back in the middle of the village, and if you allow me with a touch of humour, I would even say the mosque in the middle of the village, in the middle of the Douar”.
If I had been present, I would have asked him when in France the mosque had ever been in the centre of the village … never. Even when France ruled Algeria (fortunately for Algeria), the mosque was never in the centre of the village, and for good reason. It was French law that applied to everyone, not to the Qur’an. But no doubt Khattaby was conjuring up a dream behind her sentence, intended as a pun, which she applied to Macron’s France.
Macron, with whom she probably shares many of his values, otherwise he would not have appointed her as minister.
It must be said that she had served Macron well during the pension debate by rejecting amendments tabled by the left without scrutiny. She deserved a reward, a ministerial portfolio. Clear and simple. Macron’s simplified world: you help him, you build him a golden bridge … with taxpayers’ money.
This is the same woman who thought it was normal not to pay the overtime of a former employee and who was just convicted of this in the labour court.
Macron-Borne must have known, so she was deliberately appointed minister, and in the social field (we’re not kidding! ) she is more important to Macron because she flouts the law and above all, inevitably, because of her background than because of her “honesty”.
Like Avia and some others before her, some elected representatives with diversity backgrounds seem to have maintained a dictatorial attitude towards their employees… One wonders where this comes from!