The political scientist has chaired the National Foundation for Political Science since 2016. An interim president is expected to be appointed on January 13.
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An explosion hit Sciences Po on Monday January 4. In the afternoon, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel puts an end to all his functions, including that of president of the National Foundation of Political Sciences (FNSP), the body responsible for the financial management and the strategic orientations of the institute of Parisian political studies.
In the process, Le Monde published an article revealing accusations of incest targeting him. In a book, to be published on January 7 (Threshold, 208 pages, 18 euros), entitled La Familia grande, the lawyer Camille Kouchner accuses her stepfather of having sexually assaulted her twin brother, then a teenager, for several years.
Addressing by email to the twenty-four members of the board of directors of the FNSP, the resigned president explains his decision. He says he is “the object of personal attacks” and affirms his desire to “preserve the institutions in which [he] works”. Among all of them, Sciences Po “institution” is undoubtedly the one that has been dearest to it for several decades. The one where he made a career of training generations of students when he taught constitutional law and political science.
“He was untouchable”
Advisor to the President of the Constitutional Council , member of the Consultative Committee for the Revision of the Constitution, MEP (PS), member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, member of the Reflection and Proposal Committee on the modernization and rebalancing of the institutions of the V e République, founder and director of the review Pouvoirs, but also host and columnist on LCI and Europe 1, president of the Le Siècle club and member of the management committee of the Institut Montaigne… Constitutionalist Olivier Duhamel, 70 years, has marked the last thirty years by its public commitment.
But the one that Sciences Po presents on its website as “expert in the study of institutions, political life and their reciprocal influences “would have ended up playing one e form of misuse, according to its detractors, who would like to take the opportunity to dust off the governance of the school. In 2015, his predecessor, Jean-Claude Casanova, was referred to the budgetary and financial discipline court, following the case of the staggering salary of former director Richard Descoings. In 2016, the arrival of Mr. Duhamel at the head of the FNSP – of which he had been a member of the board of directors since 1995 – had given rise to hope which remains disappointed. Far from the educational and strategic concerns of the school, its mandate would simply illustrate the influence of the inter-self and of a caste disconnected from realities.
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