The nomination of Pap Ndiaye, a historian and expert on US minority rights, was the biggest surprise in France's new government line-up. Even before he gets down to business, the left-leaning academic has been slammed by the political right for his "woke" positions on race and police violence.
“I’m a pure product of republican meritocracy, of which school is the pillar,” Ndiaye said on Friday as he entered Elisabeth Borne’s government.
