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Comment: do not listen to what Frenchmen say. Lip service is not trustworthy.
Elitism rules OK
Mar 5th 2009 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition
Despite his anti-elite rhetoric, Nicolas Sarkozy keeps promoting énarques
“TO MY mind, the president of the republic’s powers of appointment are too great.” Thus Nicolas Sarkozy a few years ago, when crafting the image of a crusading politician ready to take aim at France’s elite. Yet as president he appears not only to enjoy these powers, but even to be extending them. What happened to the anti-establishment campaigner?
The latest fuss concerns a soon-to-be-merged bank, Caisse d’Epargne/Banque Populaire. Nobody contests the government’s right to pick its boss: it is injecting €5 billion ($6.3 billion) into the merged bank. Nor is the competence of its choice, François Pérol, in doubt: he is a former investment banker, high-flying technocrat and graduate of the elite Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA). But Mr Pérol is also Mr Sarkozy’s economic adviser at the Elysée who oversaw the merger talks.
Charges of cronyism have been lobbed from all sides, not just the left. Jean Arthuis, a former centre-right finance minister, called the appointment “extremely shocking”. Mr Sarkozy insisted he had been given the go-ahead by an independent ethics committee, though it turned out that this was only a personal opinion from the committee’s president—the committee itself has yet to meet. Libération, a left-wing newspaper, accused the president of “lies”. Edouard Balladur, a former centre-right prime minister, said that the government was “taking a risk”.
Handled less imperiously, Mr Pérol’s appointment would probably have passed smoothly. In 2007 the ethics committee rejected only 2% out of 1,014 cases it reviewed of civil servants moving to new jobs. Indeed, it is so common for French leaders to place their advisers in top jobs outside the civil service that there is a word for it: pantouflage. Under Jacques Chirac, Jean-François Cirelli, now deputy head of GDF Suez, an energy giant, was parachuted into GDF from the prime minister’s office. And Agustin de Romanet, head of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, a state investment bank, landed there shortly after leaving the president’s office.
Mr Sarkozy is merely following suit. When the government helped to bail out Dexia, a Franco-Belgian bank, last year, he picked a former adviser, Pierre Mariani, to run it. He has recently changed the rules so that the head of France Télévisions, the public broadcaster, is a direct presidential nomination. Another one-time adviser, Frédéric Oudéa, was picked last year to run Société Générale, a private-sector bank—though not, in his case, by Mr Sarkozy.
To be fair, the president has given parliament new powers, including a right for its committees to block senior presidential nominations. A list of these has yet to be drawn up, however, and it remains to be seen how much the committees will use their new power. For now, Mr Sarkozy seems as keen as his predecessors not just to promote his chums but also, more surprisingly, to favour ENA graduates. Unlike two of his three predecessors, he is not an énarque, and he has often taken pot-shots at ENA for training an insular elite.
Only a few weeks ago, Mr Sarkozy again lashed out at ENA, telling his party faithful that “a political family is made up of fighters, people who like a struggle, who like to convince, to take risks: that’s perhaps the difference between us and a famous school for senior civil servants.” Of his 17 cabinet ministers, only Valérie Pécresse is an énarque. Yet like Mr Cirelli and Mr de Romanet (and Mr Balladur and Mr Oudéa), both of Mr Sarkozy’s nominees as bank chiefs, Mr Mariani and Mr Pérol, are énarques—as is Xavier Musca, Mr Pérol’s replacement in the Elysée.
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