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Tue 04 Apr 2007Bayrou: vows to abolish elite academyFRANCE:Centrist leader François Bayrou has promised to abolish France's most elite graduate school if he becomes president next month.France is largely run by the alumni of the exclusive Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), which has educated two past presidents, including Jacques Chirac, and seven of its past nine prime ministers.