Marine Le Pen Wants ‘Patriotic Civil Servants’.

Marine Le Pen was interviewed on France Inter this morning. (Here)

One issue came to the fore.

Le Pen wants  ‘patriotic’ top civil servants.

This is a long-standing policy.

Last year she said,

• “Dans le cycle de formation des fonctionnaires des trois fonctions publiques, l’accent sera mis sur le sens de l’Etat et le patriotisme.
• L’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) veillera en particulier à recruter des hauts fonctionnaires patriotes, ayant le sens de l’État.”  Here.

In the education and training of civil servants in the 3 sectors the emphasis will be placed on the recognition of the state’s importance  and patriotism.

The National Administrative  College will pay special  attention to recruiting patriotic civil servants, having this sense of the state. 

How she would define this, and implement this rule is not clear.

One assumes that non-patriots would include those whom she denounced in the interview as believers in the pan-European “elite” ideal of a federal European Union.

As well as others from the ‘anti-France’.

But one thing is.

This strongly resembles the Hungarian nationalist and hard-right  Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s  policy.

Anybody interested in the French far-right’s different spheres, and how they are linked, should look at this site SCALP- REFLEX.

 This diagram is by the anti-fascist journal Reflex, though it’s widely distributed in France and this copy was taken from le Nouvel Observateur’s site.

 

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