The reverse is as unexpected as it is scathing for Rachida Dati. The Minister of Culture does not have her energy for months for the reform of public audiovisual, which provides for the creation of a holding company to oversee France Télévisions, Radio France and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), is adopted before summer. She made it a priority, especially since the municipal campaign in Paris could remove it from the ministry this fall. The executive also hoped, if the text votes, score a point in the face of the throbbing immobility trial.
But the debate turned short. This Monday afternoon, the deputies immediately, to everyone’s surprise, approved a motion of rejection filed by the environmentalists who laughed at the reform exam, returned to the Senate in September after already four postpones.
RN and left
If 38 deputies voted against, 94 (left and RN) approved the motion. Rachida Dati appeared alone. She spoke at 4 p.m. to defend her project in front of a 90 % empty hemicycle. Only forty deputies, out of 577, had mobilized for the beginnings of the discussion. The benches of the central block (Modem, Renaissance, etc.) were particularly deserted. A defection in which it is difficult not to see a mark of distrust of the Minister. “There is no disagreement on the substance, the problem is Rachida Dati’s closing strategy,” said a parliamentarian, in reference to recent clashes between the minister and public audiovisual figures, Patrick Cohen in particular, which occurred when she was questioned about her legal troubles.
“I suppose that some elected officials do not really want to be associated with her,” notes the environmentalist Sophie Taillian-Polian, deputy of Val-de-Marne, especially since there are, behind, stories of Parisian deal. Allusion to the probable candidacy of Rachida Dati in the name of the right and the center in the capital. The elected officials of the central block would have liked to demonstrate their little enthusiasm for this prospect that they would not have proceeded otherwise. “The left did not want to debate. The text will go faster in the Senate, ”said the minister’s office in the evening.
