Emmanuel Macron both gave in to populist demand and sent his alma mater and a symbol of modern France to the guillotine
ago this spring, students at France’s elite postgraduate civil-service college were preparing to celebrate their graduation. Behind them lay the Alsatian city of Strasbourg, its beer halls, and two years of intense study at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration . Ahead stood fast-track jobs in the parquet-floored corridors of power in Paris, and the guarantee of brilliant careers.
The student rebel, it seems, has turned into the presidential revolutionary. On April 25th, in response to thes protesters and their rage against the out-of-touch elite, Mr Macron announced the abolition of. “Makeshift repairs”, the president declared, would not do: “If you keep the same structures, habits are just too strong.” It was the most controversial and spectacular of all the announcements made to mark the end of his months-long “great national debate”.
Amid today’s angry, ruthless populism, however, the very concept of an elite is denounced on the streets and roundabouts of France. Far from admired as a dedicated public servant, thehas come to embody the perceived arrogance and disconnection of the governing class, skilled at devising technocratic policies and blind to their effect on ordinary people.
The reality of course is more complex, and more nuanced, than Mr Macron is letting on. The president knows full well that France will still want a top administration college, even if he closes the one with the now-damaged acronym. He also knows that the problem is not the concept of a high-flying school itself, but recruitment to and from it.
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