Démission refusée: la ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur reste en poste

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La ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, Sylvie Retailleau, a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron mercredi en raison d'un "désaccord profond" sur les mesures relatives aux étudiants dans la loi sur l'immigration. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 The Minister of Higher Education and Research, Sylvie Retailleau,

00:04 resigned from the office on Wednesday

00:06 due to "deep disagreement" on the measures

00:09 related to students in the Immigration Act.

00:11 However, her family announced on Thursday

00:15 that her resignation had been refused by the President.

00:17 Her resignation, presented on the basis of the Council of Ministers,

00:21 was refused and the Minister remains in office,

00:24 to specify the same source.

00:26 On the same day, the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau,

00:30 left the government irrevocably,

00:32 also in disagreement with this law.

00:34 The President of the Republic and Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne,

00:39 assured the Minister that the measures

00:41 concerning students in this law,

00:43 including the quotient required for foreign students,

00:46 would be revised if they were not censored

00:48 by the Constitutional Council, according to its entourage.

00:51 Emmanuel Macron judged on Wednesday night

00:54 in the show "C'est à vous" on France 5

00:57 that this quotient was "not a good idea"

00:59 but that the provisions he did not like

01:01 did not justify blocking everything.

01:03 After the adoption of this controversial law,

01:06 with the votes of the right and the far right,

01:08 Sylvie Retailleau had "reminded the Prime Minister

01:11 of her deep disagreement on the measures

01:13 concerning students, according to her office,

01:16 then she heard the doubts expressed on this subject

01:18 by Elisabeth Borne on France Inter on Wednesday morning.

01:22 According to the entourage of Mrs. Retailleau,

01:24 the President and the Prime Minister

01:26 consider that this is a measure that does not suit them.

01:29 On the occasion of the presentation of her resignation,

01:32 they told her that the President wanted to talk about it

01:35 on France 5 that same evening.

01:36 The President and the Prime Minister

01:39 refused to resign by renewing their confidence

01:42 to carry out the work of the future,

01:43 to add the same source.

01:45 Other ministers expressed their discomfort

01:48 after the adoption of the immigration law.

01:51 Physician Sylvie Retailleau, 58 years old,

01:54 was a novice in politics when she became

01:56 Minister of Higher Education and Research

01:58 in May 2022 after leading

02:00 the prestigious Paris-Acclais University.

02:02 She succeeded this ministry to Frédérique Vidal,

02:06 another university.

02:07 She is in particular in charge of the PORCOURSUP,

02:11 the often contested post-bacc orientation tool,

02:13 and her main battle is to re-enhance

02:16 the scholarships of students

02:17 to fight against the precariousness of young people.

02:20 Emmanuel Macron has also recently commissioned her

02:22 to reform the landscape of French public research.

02:25 Originating from Nice, Sylvie Retailleau,

02:28 wife of Stéphane Retailleau,

02:30 professor, is a specialist in the laws of physics.

02:33 It is a point in her field.

02:36 She led a career in higher education

02:39 where she started as a lecturer in 1992

02:42 at the University of Paris-Sud,

02:44 which became Paris-Acclais.

02:45 In March 2020, she was elected president

02:49 of this newly created university.

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