Expected for four days, announced Friday, May 20, the composition of the government of Elisabeth Borne would have been deemed little imaginative if a disruptive element, from civil society, had slipped there. Barely appointed Minister of National Education and Youth, the historian Pap Ndiaye monopolized attention, focused on debates, triggered the first political games, to the point of eclipizing the twenty -six other personalities – ministers, ministers Delegates and Secretaries of State – Invested at the same time as him.
Associate of history, specialist in the United States and minorities, the academic, of Franco-Senagalaise origin, is a pioneer, in France, of research on racial discrimination. It was not necessary for his appointment to be interpreted as a disavowal of what his predecessor had embodied, Jean-Michel Blanquer, holding a classic republican line and infant of the “Islamo-Gauchism”.
His appointment, while national education is one of the major reform projects for the next five -year period, is a strong signal. First in the direction of teachers, blocked for months in a difficult relationship with Jean-Michel Blanquer. Then in the direction of part of the youth who feels discriminated against and with which he hopes to become the symbol “of meritocracy and diversity”. Creating alchemy likely to put the heavy educational machine back in motion, encourage it to seek the effective means of reducing inequalities, remains a challenge, at a time when the institution, prey to doubt, is going through a vocations crisis without vocations without vocations without vocations without vocations without vocations without vocations Previous.
A political signal
A large part of the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in mind, praised the appointment of Pap Ndiaye, the right worried, the extreme right has defended him by accusing the academic of being ” An assumed indigenist “, which is rigorously false. On the contrary, his peers praise his spirit of measure, his ability, in debates, to frame emotions and his unwavering republican commitment on a line that could be summed up as follows: neither denial nor repentance.
For the time being, the signal is mainly political: after having borrowed from Jean-Luc Mélenchon the concept of “ecological planning”, the President of the Republic continues to hunt on the land on the left, because it is On this side that the threat is the strongest for the June legislative elections. However, this does not prevent him from consolidating a certain number of heavy goods vehicles from the right: Bruno Le Maire to the economy, Gérald Darmanin inside, Eric Dupond-Moretti to justice in the sovereign or strategic positions, Eric Dupond-Moretti, despite his Indictment for illegal taking of interests and its execrable relations with the unions of magistrates.
In a global situation which continues to darken, the premium goes to know-how with the appointment to the Quai d’Orsay of a diplomat, Catherine Colonna, who has long worked with Jacques Chirac. The realization of the ecological transition falls, under the control of Elisabeth Borne, to two women, Agnès Pannier-Runacher and Amélie de Montchalin, more renowned for their efficiency than for their ecological fiber. A number of young macronist shoots having proven themselves, such as Gabriel Attal or Clément Beaune, are promoted. Government architecture finally sums up fairly well the way in which the President of the Republic intends to lead the electoral fight: by limiting the risk taking.