The executive soon at the bedside of Mayotte, Bayrou is looking for ministers and Parcoursup opens

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Faced with the scale of the disaster in Mayotte, the executive wants to show the poorest department in France the solidarity of the entire Nation. For this, Emmanuel Macron is expected on Thursday on the archipelago, devastated by the deadly passage of Cyclone Chido and threatened by a health crisis. The new Prime Minister François Bayrou will follow suit as soon as his “government is formed”, in order to “mobilize all of the state’s resources”, he said on Tuesday on France 2. On site the The situation is extremely precarious, with residents lacking everything. And the latest figures from the Ministry of the Interior show 22 dead and 1,373 injured. But this human toll is unfortunately only very provisional, with the authorities fearing “several hundred” deaths, perhaps even “a few thousand”.

François Bayrou continues his quest to build a team that will avoid a motion of censure. Criticized from all sides for having chosen to go to Pau in the middle of the crisis in Mayotte, the Prime Minister promised Tuesday to the deputies not to leave any challenge “unanswered”, but without advancing on his solutions while waiting to form a government “in a few days.” His intention is to present a tight team of around 25 ministers with personalities from the left, center and right, according to parliamentary sources, before delivering his general policy declaration to Parliament on January 14.

This December, high school students will have to start thinking about next year. Parcoursup’s 2025 training map is in fact available from this Wednesday, with new features such as an interactive tool to see the profile of admitted candidates and information on the professional integration of graduates. Wishes will be made from January 15. So to understand everything about this first phase and how the platform works, our journalist Elsa Provenzano went to interview Jérôme Teillard, Parcoursup project manager at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.