The ex-pen of Christine Lagarde tries to bring together the 500 sponsorships. This liberal-inspired philosopher wants to be the candidate of simplification.
When he was born in 1982, his parents, gentle anarchists, decided that this son with the big forehead would bear his mother’s name. A feminist choice then unusual, immediately reproved by the civil status, which obliged the couple to declare Gaspard of unknown father so that he was named Koenig like his mother. That assured, his father recognized him. From his cradle, therefore, the still vagant Gaspard Koenig devoted his life to fighting the French administration, its normative inflation and its paralyzing bureaucracy. Forty years later, the radical liberal and father of two children wishes to compete in the presidential election. His program: simplification. “Our country, recalls the founder of Simple, his political microparty, and author of several essays*, has nearly 500,000 laws and regulations and 75 legal codes”, including the ineffable Cinema and Moving Image Code and its over 1000 pages.
He assures that nearly 200 elected officials have verbally committed to sponsoring him.
His project: divide this monster by a hundred, reduce this niggling logorrhea to a few fundamental principles, imagine common contracts understandable by all, all accompanied by iconoclastic proposals such as universal income, the legalization of cannabis, that of surrogacy and prohibition of social networks to children. This man of original thought also made himself known by undertaking, in 2020, a journey on horseback across Europe, from Bordeaux to Rome, in the footsteps of the journey made by Michel de Montaigne in 1580.
Normalien, agrégé in philosophy, former pen of Christine Lagarde in the Economy, a time banker at the Berd, unsuccessful candidate for deputy (he obtained 4.4% in 2012 in the constituency of Northern Europe), he ensures that nearly 200 elected officials have verbally pledged to sponsor it. Hurry up. On March 4, the 500 signatures must be sent to the Constitutional Council. So 1,800 volunteers, 17 regional referents and a handful of employees gathered in the rented premises in the République district, in Paris, warm up their phones. “Committing to a candidate who wants to put an end to administrative complexity, supporting a resolute enemy of bureaucracy in the land of absurdist appeals to many small rural elected officials”, assures Delphine Garnier, his close adviser. And then, signing to simplify daily life has the merit of not offending anyone. Gaspard Koenig believes in it.
* “Let’s make life easier!” », by Gaspard Koenig, with Nicolas Gardères, ed. of the Observatory, 144 pages, 12 euros.
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