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Less than a month from the first round, the executive announces a general increase in the salaries of public officials when it has always refused to do so since 2017. A salary carrot announcing big sticks on pensions and the “system of remuneration”.
But who are we kidding? After a five-year term of having hammered home, in all tones and all seams, that the thaw of the index point was only “not relevant”, “not a good solution” despite the difficulties for some civil servants to make ends meet, the executive announced this Monday evening, four days before the reserve period, that it intends, if Emmanuel Macron remains in power, to increase the salaries of civil servants. “This decision is neither a promise nor an electoral measure”, swears the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, Amélie de Montchalin, in an interview this Monday evening at the Parisian. The decision will be made “before summer” and registered “in an amending finance law […] passed in Parliament” in July.
The minister was nevertheless proud, less than three months ago after a meeting at her ministry with the unions wishing to mobilize for the purchasing power of civil servants, not to give in on “the revaluation of the index point” : “a facility used by previous governments” and…