The Secretary of State for Youth Sarah El Haïry pushes for the extension of the universal national service, which would concern all 2nd students. But no arbitration has been rendered.
by Sylvie Lecherbonnier and Eléa Pommiers
Wake up early, put on your uniform, participate in the lifting of the French flag, sing the Marseillaise before going to various activities around self -defense, commitment, road safety or climate. This ritual which opens each day of the universal national service (SNU) today will it soon be a reality for the 800,000 students of 2 of ? If “the decision goes to the President of the Republic” and that “nothing is decided”, we insist in the cabinet of Sarah El Haïry, the Secretary of State for Youth in charge of the file, this possible generalization of the SNU has aroused worries and emotions since the publication of a working document revealed by the weekly Politis , Monday, February 27.
During questions to the government on Tuesday, February 28, Sarah El Haïry was taken to task by left -wing deputies on the subject. “The Republic is not taught with pumps, grotesque parades or by carrying ridiculous caps,” said the generation deputy. Benjamin Lucas. The Secretary of State has defended an “emancipation project” for youth.
Since its creation in 2019, the SNU, made up of a two-week “cohesion stay”, then a general interest mission of eighty-four hours, has been criticized. He is tried, for many, too expensive and too military. In 2022, 32,000 young people aged 15 to 17 invested there, 14,650 in 2021. A number of volunteers up after two years disturbed by the COVVI-19 pandemic, but below the objective of the 50,000 that the government had set itself. This “observation questions the dimensioning of this policy in relation to the appetite of young people for this approach”, noted a Senate information mission in a mid-2022 report.
” Domestication device “
Despite everything, its generalization has been in the air since its origins, and singularly for a few months. “I will take the first milestones in the next few weeks of a universal national service,” said the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, during his wishes, on December 31, 2022, before postponing his announcements so as not to stir up the Mobilization of youth, at the time of dispute around the pension reform.
Two scenarios are today on the table to extend the SNU. On the one hand, leaving the universal national service on the basis of volunteering, during school holidays, but by multiplying the possibilities of participating in it and with incentive measures such as the passage of the driving license or the certificate of aptitude for functions animator. On the other, a refocused generalization around the “cohesion stay”. The 800,000 pupils of 2 of – the privileged level because there is no exam – would leave two weeks on school time, on staggered stays from October to June depending on the high schools.
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