PARIS, France (Reuters) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday after losing a key minister in a parliamentary election and made former international lawyer Christine Lagarde France's first female economy minister.Just a month after naming his team, Sarkozy switched the previous economy chief Jean-Louis Borloo to run a new energy and environment mega-ministry in place of Alain Juppe who quit the government after losing his constituency in Sunday's poll."You can't refuse an offer like that," Borloo was quoted as saying by the daily Le Parisien ahead of the announcement.Borloo becomes de facto deputy to Prime Minister Francois Fillon, even though some on the center-right blame his unguarded comments on a possible value-added tax hike for their smaller-than-expected majority in the weekend election.Lagarde entered politics in 2005 as trade minister in the previous conservative administration and her assured handling of the brief meant she was given the tricky farms portfolio last month when Sarkozy unveiled his administration.Her promotion to economy minister was something of a surprise, and she must now sell economic reforms to the sceptical unions and convince EU partners that tax cuts will not stop Paris respecting the bloc's rules on fiscal discipline.
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday after losing a key minister in a parliamentary election and made former international lawyer Christine Lagarde France's first female economy minister.
Just a month after naming his team, Sarkozy switched the previous economy chief Jean-Louis Borloo to run a new energy and environment mega-ministry in place of Alain Juppe who quit the government after losing his constituency in Sunday's poll.
"You can't refuse an offer like that," Borloo was quoted as saying by the daily Le Parisien ahead of the announcement.
Borloo becomes de facto deputy to Prime Minister Francois Fillon, even though some on the center-right blame his unguarded comments on a possible value-added tax hike for their smaller-than-expected majority in the weekend election.
Lagarde entered politics in 2005 as trade minister in the previous conservative administration and her assured handling of the brief meant she was given the tricky farms portfolio last month when Sarkozy unveiled his administration.
Her promotion to economy minister was something of a surprise, and she must now sell economic reforms to the sceptical unions and convince EU partners that tax cuts will not stop Paris respecting the bloc's rules on fiscal discipline.
Christine Lagarde will oversee €11bn in tax cuts Black feminist appointed to deal with troubled cities Christine Lagarde, a top lawyer and a former champion synchronised swimmer, was yesterday appointed France's first woman economy minister.She was one of several women appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy in a rethink of his cabinet and junior ministerial roles. In an attempt to confound Socialists and disprove critics who say he is divisive, the new rightwing president invited more figures from the left to join his team.He appointed an outspoken feminist campaigner of north African descent to address the fall-out from the riots on suburban housing estates.
She was one of several women appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy in a rethink of his cabinet and junior ministerial roles. In an attempt to confound Socialists and disprove critics who say he is divisive, the new rightwing president invited more figures from the left to join his team.
He appointed an outspoken feminist campaigner of north African descent to address the fall-out from the riots on suburban housing estates.
Réactions contrastées pour Amara à "Ni putes ni soumises" PARIS (Reuters) - La nomination de Fadela Amara au poste de secrétaire d'Etat en charge de la politique de la Ville suscite émoi et débats au sein de l'association "Ni putes, ni soumises" (NPNS), qu'elle préside. "J'espère qu'elle laissera le mouvement indépendant de son propre engagement", a déclaré mardi Christine Prizac, administratrice de NPNS pour le Loiret et responsable local du planning familial. "Cette nomination me pose question au regard des missions que s'assigne le mouvement. Il me semble qu'il y ait contradiction dans le fait d'appartenir à un gouvernement qui n'a rien mis en place dans les banlieues pendant ces cinq dernières années et qui, de surcroît, voit à sa tête un homme qui a tenu des propos douteux sur les jeunes issus de l'immigration", ajoute-t-elle. (...) En Seine-Saint-Denis, dans la "ceinture rouge" de Paris, la nomination de Fadela Amara semble provoquer un véritable traumatisme, certains militants parlant de "trahison". "C'est une véritable trahison, et je ne suis pas la seule à le penser", affirme Riva Gherchanoc, responsable du comité de Montreuil. "Les comités comme le mien, qui luttent toute l'année dans les cités, se trouvent décrédibilisés par cette nomination. Nous sommes sous le choc et exigeons sa démission immédiate !" Même tonalité au sud de Paris, dans le Val-de-Marne où l'association jouit également d'une importante implantation. "J'ai tout simplement l'intention de quitter le mouvement", déclare Ramata Sakho, membre du comité de Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. "Si elle avait accepté un secrétariat à la condition féminine, pourquoi pas. Mais là, elle me donne l'impression d'accepter un poste pour son seul confort», poursuit-elle.
PARIS (Reuters) - La nomination de Fadela Amara au poste de secrétaire d'Etat en charge de la politique de la Ville suscite émoi et débats au sein de l'association "Ni putes, ni soumises" (NPNS), qu'elle préside.
"J'espère qu'elle laissera le mouvement indépendant de son propre engagement", a déclaré mardi Christine Prizac, administratrice de NPNS pour le Loiret et responsable local du planning familial.
"Cette nomination me pose question au regard des missions que s'assigne le mouvement. Il me semble qu'il y ait contradiction dans le fait d'appartenir à un gouvernement qui n'a rien mis en place dans les banlieues pendant ces cinq dernières années et qui, de surcroît, voit à sa tête un homme qui a tenu des propos douteux sur les jeunes issus de l'immigration", ajoute-t-elle.
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En Seine-Saint-Denis, dans la "ceinture rouge" de Paris, la nomination de Fadela Amara semble provoquer un véritable traumatisme, certains militants parlant de "trahison".
"C'est une véritable trahison, et je ne suis pas la seule à le penser", affirme Riva Gherchanoc, responsable du comité de Montreuil.
"Les comités comme le mien, qui luttent toute l'année dans les cités, se trouvent décrédibilisés par cette nomination. Nous sommes sous le choc et exigeons sa démission immédiate !"
Même tonalité au sud de Paris, dans le Val-de-Marne où l'association jouit également d'une importante implantation. "J'ai tout simplement l'intention de quitter le mouvement", déclare Ramata Sakho, membre du comité de Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.
"Si elle avait accepté un secrétariat à la condition féminine, pourquoi pas. Mais là, elle me donne l'impression d'accepter un poste pour son seul confort», poursuit-elle.
Shock and betrayal within the association "neither whores nor submissive" that Fadela Amara presided and which has been very active in fighting against discrimination (in particular of course agaisnt women) in the suburbs. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Typical of the bloody oppositional left that it would rather have powerless purity to breed yet more generations of frustrated revolutionary cadres than grasp the opportunity for real power and make a difference to the generations now suffering discrimination. No wonder some commentators wahs their hands of the tankie left, sometimes they're too stupid for words. keep to the Fen Causeway
