While traveling in Mayotte with Prime Minister François Bayrou, Elisabeth Borne was attacked by angry teachers. But, running out of arguments, the new Minister of National Education preferred to turn her back.
After a one-day visit at the head of a large ministerial delegation, the Prime Minister presented to the Departmental Council of the archipelago his plan “Mayotte standing” which “has a single guideline: no sentences, decisions concrete and precise, concrete and precise commitments”.
“It is not only a question of rebuilding Mayotte as it was. It is a question of designing the future of Mayotte, different,” explained François Bayrou during the day, who repeated his “objective” of rebuilding Mayotte in two years.
Accompanied by five ministers, including Ministers of State Elisabeth Borne (Education) and Manuel Valls (Overseas), François Bayrou visited the Petite Terre water desalination plant, a field hospital, a school including several classrooms Classes were devastated, before increasing the number of meetings with the island's leaders and elected officials.
“Image terrible”
The delegation also came up against the despair of the inhabitants, like this sequence during which Elisabeth Borne is questioned by two teachers who testify to the difficulties of daily life.
“For two weeks, in all the slums, no one has come, no one,” one of them calls out, disillusioned. “You can say what you want on the news, the reality is there.” “They exist, but perhaps people are not well informed,” continues Élisabeth Borne, unsure of herself.
But the humanitarian aid supply points are located far from the various slums, which sometimes prevents residents from finding water and food, according to this professor. “Five kilometers on foot in the middle of the countryside, five kilometers back. Without water, without food. It's impossible. It’s a shame,” say the teachers.
“Ok”, replied Élisabeth Borne before leaving the premises, whose attitude was widely criticized on social networks.
“Terrible image. A minister cannot turn on her heels by disregarding the testimony of teachers who warn about the health situation,” said the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure. “E.Borne cannot turn its back on this reality!” protested SNES-FSU on X (Twitter). “The empathy of a dead fish”, quips Ian Brossat, communist senator.
