DECRYPTION – The Republican candidate wants to make the reforms that the right has never done for 20 years. But, since then, the company has evolved …
Valérie Pécresse, now the face of the Republicans in the race for the presidential election, has positioned herself for several weeks as the candidate who will “The reforms that the right has never made” for 20 years. Basically, it therefore insists on the classic fundamentals of its electorate, in particular work and public finances.
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But, for 20 years, things have changed, the world of work has evolved, the aspirations of the French too. Isn’t there therefore a mistake – in language at least – in evoking the same transformations as those already discussed during previous presidential campaigns?
Two subjects can give the beginning of an answer, although not exhaustive. First, the candidate’s speech on reducing the number of civil servants. She is clear, she wants to cut 150,000 jobs as a reform of the state. If it was, for a time, fashionable, to show its serious budget, to want to cut with an ax in the workforce of …
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