Uproar after new accusations against the pro-Blanquer union "Avenir lycéen"

The high school unions on Saturday denounced "state propaganda" and an attempt to "smother" the protest in Education after new accusations against the youth organization "Avenir Lycéen", which defended pro-government positions and would have been remotely controlled by the ministry.

In a long survey published on Saturday,

ensures that this high school union, created in 2018, "sprouted Rue de Grenelle, in the close entourage of Jean-Michel Blanquer, to serve the communication of the minister, and above all to break off any dialogue with the high school unions "opposed to his reforms, especially that of the bac.

Rectorates allegedly participated in writing union press releases

Based on numerous testimonies, the article affirms that the number 2 of the ministry at the time, Jean-Marc Huart, was closely linked to the leaders of "Avenir lycéen" and that the rectorates were involved in the writing of union press releases. , systematically in favor of the reforms of the ministry.

Contacted by AFP, the ministry declined to comment.

LFI and Communist elected officials on Friday evening demanded a parliamentary commission of inquiry into this affair.

At the beginning of November,

had already affirmed that "Avenir lycéen" had received 65,000 euros in public subsidies in 2019 which would have been swallowed up in food costs and other expenses in luxury hotels.

Saturday, the information site also supported, email in support, that an executive of the ministry had been informed last July of the financial slippages of "Avenir Lycéen" without any investigation being then carried out.

The

article on

Saturday provoked the anger of high school unions, some of which directly pointed the finger at Jean-Michel Blanquer.

"An insult to young people"

In a statement, the Fidl (Independent and Democratic Lycée Federation) denounced a "total deviation of the trade union cause and an insult to young people whose ministry would have organized the stifling of speech" and urged Jean-Michel Blanquer to seize the justice for a judicial inquiry to be opened.

The MNL union sees him in "Avenir lycéen", "a political enterprise that has not hesitated to manipulate some of our young school comrades (...) in order to serve the interests of the minister".

A grant frozen in 2020

As for the UNL, which had announced a complaint after the first revelations of

, it accuses Jean-Michel Blanquer of having "instrumentalised from scratch an alleged opposition to the protest movement which had mounted against him".

The article also reacted to the teachers' union Snes-FSU, the first secondary school organization, which called for shedding light on this "culpable mixture of genres" in order to establish whether the administration had acted "on order or on political pressure ".

After the first revelations of

, the ministry had carried out an administrative investigation into the subsidies granted to "Avenir lycéen" and had defended itself, with AFP, from any favoritism by ensuring that this union was part of the "representative" organizations. .

He also indicated that the payment of the subsidy of 30,000 euros allocated in 2020 to "Avenir lycéen" had been frozen.