The philosopher Gaspard Koenig announced on Tuesday his decision to embark on the race for the Élysée with the ambition to “simplify” the lives of the French, by reducing “by 100 the number of standards”, which he presents as “a bureaucratic prison “.
A new presidential candidate. The philosopher Gaspard Koenig announced on Tuesday his decision to embark on the race for the Élysée with the ambition to “simplify” the lives of the French, by reducing “by 100 the number of standards”, which he presents as “a bureaucratic prison “. “The goal today is to give back freedom, responsibility, autonomy so that people make their decision,” said on France 2 the 39-year-old candidate, who recalled having traveled in 2020 the country on horseback by staying “every night or almost at the inhabitant”.
The defense of a “simplification” of the bureaucracy
“It appeared to me then that people suffer from administrative paperwork problems. It is often tragi-dramatic things that prevent them from living their life, from doing their job,” he said to justify his candidacy, estimating that no candidate defended this “simplification” of the bureaucracy. “This reflects a society which is extremely tense, which produces excessively standards. We are more and more caught in this real bureaucratic prison”, denounced the philosopher who founded in May a political movement called “Simple”.
“President of the Republic, that does not make me dream. I do not have the answer to everything, I am not a savior”, he admitted. However, he wishes to run for the post in order to “reduce the number of standards in France by 100”. “Simplification is the mother of battles,” he argued. Gaspard Koenig admitted to having voted Emmanuel Macron in 2017. “But in this great political space of the center in which I recognize myself, he took an extremely authoritarian attitude, he governed from above, he recentralized”, a- he lamented. He also announced his desire to “take his pilgrim’s staff” in order to seek from elected officials the 500 sponsorships necessary to become officially a candidate.