Paris (AFP)
The first measure of the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, if she is elected president in the spring of 2022, will be to launch "big negotiations" to increase salaries, she said on Tuesday.
"I will engage with the unions, at the inter-professional level and at the level of the branches, major salary negotiations to put the French in a situation where they can live with dignity from their work", declared on BFMTV and RMC the socialist councilor, great favorite of the nomination vote scheduled for October 14 within the PS.
The increase in wages will be "from negotiations", insisted Ms. Hidalgo, stressing the "problem of wages on the middle classes and popular categories" in France.
The mayor of Paris reaffirmed that she intends to "double the salaries of teachers" over the entire next five-year term if she is elected.
"We will have to start by aligning the salary of teachers, who begin roughly at bac +5, with the salary of bac +5 in the country," she repeated.
This shock proposal, not quantified, appearing in his book "A French woman" has been widely criticized by his opponents: "summit of demagoguery" for the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, who quantifies the measure at "150 billion (euros) at the end of the five-year term "cumulatively, measure" that no one considers credible on the part of the PS "for the LFI deputy Alexis Corbière.
Asked about a possible reduction in speed on highways from 130 to 110 km / h, Ms. Hidalgo replied: "I am personally for the reduction in speed; 130 km / h is a lot".
"I am generally in favor of lowering the speed since speed equals accidents," said Ms. Hidalgo, who has just implemented 30 km / h in almost the entire capital, at the Except for the ring road, the boulevards of the marshals and a few main roads.
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