Bayrou wants to Remove The ENA

Writing for Mass Media
04 /03/2007



Bayrou wants to remove the ENA




Francois Bayrou benefitted from its displacement in the Antilles to announce a shock measure: suppression of the ENA (national School of the administration), which trains the French senior officials. Francois Bayrou thus seems to want to take again its place of candidate anti-system. The Socialist Laurent Fabius for its part estimated that the idea to remove Ena did not have anything original.


With the search for a new idea for some time, Francois Bayrou announced at the time of a travel to the Antilles that he will remove the ENA. A means for the center candidate of taking again the hand on the topic in the "complicity" of the political and economic forces. While wanting removing the ENA, the national School of the administration which trains the French senior officials, Francois Bayrou tackles the "capacity which locks France". The former socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius reacted to this advertisement. "I would be badly placed for saying that it is a bad idea because it is something which I proposed several years ago", it has says. "All depends within which framework one does it", the former Prime Minister added. Laurent Fabius, itself former pupil of Ena, considers necessary a reform of the high administration: "I never considered to be very healthy that all the senior officials come from the same school".

Monday, it was with the turn of Nicolas Sarkozy, "neither guy fron ENA nor aggregate", to carry itself against this "strange proposal". For him, Francois Bayrou "proposes to remove the ENA and in replacement, another school which would make the same thing exactly". It would thus be a question only "of changing the name" of the establishment.

François Holland is not of the same opinion: For the first secretary of the PS, this "cosmetic" proposal reveals "an absence of program on essence". And to fustigate the danger that there is "to give to public vindication a formation or senior officials who are not responsible for all".