In the midst of the campaign to obtain the nomination for the 2022 presidential election from LR members on December 4, Valérie Pécresse continues to spell out her proposals.

In an interview published Monday evening on the

L'Opinion website

, she particularly attacked the number of officials, a theme dear to the right.

The candidate thus proposes to remove “150,000 positions in the administering administration” during the next five-year term.

For the president of the Ile-de-France region, “the State must refocus on its three priority missions: protect, educate, care, with where necessary additional posts for justice, education and care. .

It is not a question of degrading the public service, nor of breaking the recovery.

But the expenses must go down ”.

Privatizations and debt reduction

“To stop the explosion of the debt and bring it back in 2027 to the current level, we must reach 45 billion euros in savings, to which I add 15 billion in privatization revenues. The State is not intended to remain a minority shareholder in competitive companies, ”continues the candidate. "If I am elected President of the Republic, my first decision will therefore be to initiate four major structural reforms to lower spending and reduce the tax burden," she adds, listing "retirement at 65, degression unemployment benefits, the debureaucratization of the country and decentralization with a letting go of the State to eliminate the duplicates ”.

In September, Valérie Pécresse had already mentioned the reduction "in five years of 10% of the" administering administration ", that is to say of officials who manage standards and procedures".

"" The administrative administration "exists only in the interviews of Valérie Pécresse", reacted Monday evening Amélie de Montchalin, minister of transformation and the public service.

“This very vague expression reflects the lack of vision of the state on the right.

This is the return of the RGPP method: dark cuts without efficiency, ”she said, in an allusion to the“ general review of public policies ”carried out during Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year term.

"Local investment aid"

In 2017, François Fillon, right-wing presidential candidate, defended the elimination of 500,000 public official positions in five years.

Emmanuel Macron, for his part, promised the elimination of 120,000 positions, a target abandoned in July 2019. The 2022 budget confirms the stability of the workforce of the state civil service during the entire five-year term.

In the interview given to

L'Opinion

, Valérie Pécresse also offers "assistance for local investment", in order to "rebalance the territories.

In municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants, individuals will be able to invest in shares or lend to their local businesses over a minimum of five years with a 50% tax credit for a maximum investment of 20,000 euros ”.

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