Nicolas Bouzou 2:13 p.m., January 07, 2022

For months, the Covid-19 has occupied all of the media space.

A monopolization that is not about to stop, with 200,000 cases on average in recent days.

However, other socio-economic subjects of major importance are overlooked.

An incredible situation, 75 days before the presidential election.

Nicolas Bouzou gives us his analysis.

EDITORIAL

I'm not going to comment on this little sentence from the president (Editor's note: on the unvaccinated). It has already been done enough, too done, moreover, because it prevents us from talking, basically, about extremely important things. I would still like to remind you that the first round of the presidential election is on April 10. It's in three months. We can take the February vacation away. That means there are 75 days left to debate. However, from an economic point of view, we are not talking about anything. However, all the polls show us that the first concern of the French is purchasing power. Well, we are not talking about salaries, we are not talking about continuing training, we are hardly talking about participation. Nothing on employment and we no longer even talk about full employment. Nothing on the debt.

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So some candidates are announcing the cuts of civil servants' posts.

But we do not know the method and there is no debate on the role of the State, no costing of programs.

However, in this famous interview with the Parisian, the President of the Republic said interesting things, for example on the autonomy of schools, the working time of teachers.

Who picked it up.

Who spoke about it?

I heard Valérie Pécresse who wants to limit social housing to 30% in certain neighborhoods.

This is a very strong, very interesting proposition, but who is debating it?

Anybody.

"After the election, for the winner, the country will be ungovernable"

You might think it's related to the Covid, but at the same time, we can use the circumstances of the Covid to have very fascinating substantive debates. I'll give you a few examples. What reform for the hospital? We set up the Health Segur at the beginning of October, with significant salary increases. There has never been so many departures of nurses, nurses, from the hospital. We are debating the role of mutuals. Well, what prevention policy? How to restore competitiveness to our health industries in a context of therapeutic revolution? Lots of interesting things but we don't talk about that either. We do not debate.

There are four main economic challenges for France.

The power challenge, that is to say to what extent we can become or become again a great country of innovation.

The social challenge is the question of wages, purchasing power, but also housing.

The financial challenge, the debt, of course, and the reform of the welfare state, pension reform, social security reform.

And then, the environmental challenge, for example, how many EPRs are being built in France?

When and at what cost for electricity in the long term?

If we don't discuss all of this before, including in a somewhat confrontational manner, well I can tell you that after the election, for the winner, whoever he is, the country will be ungovernable.