Guest of Europe 1, Abdelkader Haroune affirms that the diversity problem in the senior civil service is not so much a problem of recruitment as the fact that "a section of the population has monopolized" this sector.

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How to diversify our elites? Should we shake up the training of future senior officials as recommended by Frédéric Thiriez in a report given Tuesday to Edouard Philippe? If the member of the Presidential Committee of Cities Abdelkader Haroune hails the work of the former boss of the Professional Football League, he argues that the problem of diversity in the grandes écoles is not due to "access to the grandes écoles" like the ENA, but "visibility". What he calls the microphone of Europe 1 "the glass ceiling"

"The senior civil service has been monopolized by a certain segment of the population"

Invited to the "Big Evening Newspaper" of Europe 1 Wednesday, this divisional police commissioner affirms that "the high civil service has been monopolized by a certain section of the population". Citing a study by a sociologist, whose name he seems to have forgotten, he argues that "two thirds of those who have done Sciences Po are turning away from the public service because they know that they will be discriminated against at some point" .

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Affirming that the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron told him in person that having a "France that reflects the territories" was a priority, he came to the "obvious" conclusion that the resistance comes from the public service itself . "Everyone agrees, so why are there blockages? Because people in positions of responsibility do not want things to change." For Abdelkader Haroune, the "system of inter-self and networks" results in "discrimination" once a certain hierarchical level is crossed. "At one point, it is no longer accessible to a person who has merit".

A commission against discrimination

To remedy this "glass ceiling" and allow diversification in this sector, he proposed the creation, via a bill, of an "independent commission of the senior civil service". This body would be responsible for analyzing the places of residence of senior officials "in order to be able to detect any cases of discrimination.