Isabelle Rome, the feminist magistrate who became a member of the government

Thrown into the arena. Two months after his appointment as Minister for Equality between Women and Men, it is the turn ofIsabel Rome to address the deputies during a session of questions to the government. Opposition is fierce, the President of the National Assembly calls for silence, the hemicycle knows the heckling of the first days. On the benches sits Caroline Cayeux.

At the microphone, the deputy Insoumise Ségolène Amiot quotes her among the ministers of the government to be dismissed because of their statements judged “homophobes”. The floor is to Isabelle Rome, who, under the boos of the deputies of the Nupes, tries to defend her colleague. “You are particularly targeting a minister. She apologized and today she is fully at work alongside Elisabeth Borne.

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“I knew the exercise would be difficult,” concedes the Minister. “But I need more to destabilize me.” At 59, she learned the lesson. Next time, he will have to be more firm…