While the government continues to reform the senior administration, Marine Le Pen has affirmed her support for the prefects.

In a letter addressed to them and made public on Tuesday, the president of the National Rally affirmed her opposition to the reform envisaged by Emmanuel Macron to remove the body of prefects while maintaining the function.

A measure that comes just after the abolition of the National School of Administration (ENA).

"Attacking the prefectural body (...) confirms a methodical desire to deconstruct an administrative building around which the Nation has been forged", maintains the candidate for the Elysee in a letter dated May 10.

"The Head of State deconstructs the State" by reforming the body of prefects, in order to be able to "accommodate his friends", had denounced last week Marine Le Pen from the Vendée.

Risk of recourse "more and more frequent, to private consulting firms"

“Behind this policy of an administrative clean slate, there is the risk of politicizing both recruitments and appointments within the senior civil service,” adds the president of the National Rally.

And "these reform projects run up against our shared conception of the republican meritocracy and the neutrality of the service of the State", she further argues, pointing to the risk of a "rampant privatization of public functions", with the recourse "More and more frequent, to private consulting firms for public interventions".

Marine Le Pen believes "in the French administrative model"

According to Marine Le Pen, this reform will "accelerate the process of disintegration of the entire public service and further undermine its legitimacy of action".

The far-right leader says “(believe) in the French administrative model” even if “no one disagrees (with) necessary adaptations”.

But “these developments to which everyone is ready in no way justifies collapsing the edifice.

This is why, unlike current projects, my political project gives priority to restoring the authority of the State, ”she concludes.

Regarding the ENA, which Emmanuel Macron plans to replace by an "Institute of public service", Marine Le Pen had castigated "a communication operation", believing that the French rather want "a change of state of spirit of the functioning of the state rather than the change of training schools ”.

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