Paris (AFP)

"In reality, we will be closer to 200,000 job cuts in a number of administrative management functions and we will have job creation in the three crucial missions: educate, protect, care," said the president on Wednesday. of the Ile-de-France region on franceinfo.

The former minister had proposed to cut "150,000 positions" in the "administering administration" during the next quinquennium, Monday evening in an interview with the newspaper L'Opinion.

"We will need to recruit a certain number of civil servants in the sectors in which they are lacking", for example "justice, the poor relation of all public policies", but also in education and "care", a- she clarified.

To allow these job cuts, it will, according to her, "completely review all public policies" and "stop duplication" because "State, regions, departments, municipalities do everything at the same time with competing services".

"No ministry will escape this general review of public policies", she warned, while proposing "an act III of decentralization".

Another contender, Eric Ciotti proposed for his part on the Public Senate to "reduce the number of civil servants by 250,000".

Asked about these job cuts, one of their rivals for the LR congress, Michel Barnier, assured RTL that he "will not do that" because "we cannot make officials responsible when the 'State does not work ".

Citing as an example the policy of Laurent Wauquiez as president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, he estimated that "we can reduce operating costs without lowering the level of quality of public service".

He also mentioned the possibility of "redeployments", without specifying further.

"Do not post a decrease in the number of civil servants", added another candidate Philippe Juvin on Cnews, estimating that "we were very wrong in the past on the public services by playing a little Father Fouettard, it is a fault".

The mayor of Garenne-Colombes, on the other hand, proposes a "redistribution of 200,000 front office positions, that is to say in contact with the French".

"I think that we must reduce the number of civil servants on the occasion of retirements and the end of contracts, but I want to be able to make tailor-made", pleaded on Sud Radio Xavier Bertrand, other candidate for the LR nomination.

"In the hospital, for example, I won't touch the hair of a single caregiver," he said.

"On the other hand, over the entire administrative part of the hospital, where the administrative staff has increased significantly, this is where we must be able to reduce," he added.

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