A a few weeks before the presidential election, the minister of national education saturates the media space. Already weakened by his management of the return to school in January, Jean-Michel Blanquer now finds himself without allies since Mediapart revealed that he was on vacation in Ibiza at the time of finalizing and announcing the health protocol, if disputed, in force in the schools.
Daily front page of the newspapers since he was appointed to the government, Jean-Michel Blanquer entered it thirty-five years ago, in the Politics pages of the World. A promising first time for the then 23-year-old.
Universalism and national identity
On February 4, 1987, Danielle Rouard, in a small article devoted to an association which has set itself the goal of rewriting the Declaration of Human Rights, describes its founders, three students from good families, former students of the private college Stanislas : “They are between twenty and twenty-two years old, are trained in political science or sociology, live with their parents, make a little money in odd jobs. » Only the president of the association, Jean-Michel Blanquer, is not a child of the ball. The other two are called “Richard Senghor, whose great-uncle is none other than Léopold Senghor, and François Baroin, son of Michel” – a friendship that lasts.
On the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, in 1989, this same association brought together 400 young people from 80 countries to work on this new Declaration of Human Rights. An article dated July 25, 1989 lists the debates which agitate the members and which do not fail to resonate with those who still occupy Blanquer, who has become a minister: universalism and national identity. “We had to play with vocabulary for an article to be adopted despite very present Muslim opposition: “Women will have free disposal of their bodies”, most “in accordance with their convictions”. »
Six years passed before his name reappeared on October 6, 1995, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the National School of Administration. Blanquer publishes the Seraglio, an essay devoted to the Vauban promotion, which included the young Jacques Chirac in its ranks. A year later, on October 25, 1996, The world is interested in Change era, its new book of interviews with personalities on the theme of transformation. A result “original but unequal”, judges the daily which already points to the author’s concern around the question of the affirmation of the rights of minorities: “The author does not sufficiently develop the arguments on the sides he takes himself, in particular against multiculturalism. »
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