“I serve a candidate who has built a coherent political project”, proclaimed the campaign manager of Valérie Pécresse after her victory in early December at the Republican congress.
And Patrick Stefanini to insist, on several occasions, on this essential virtue according to him to appear credible in the eyes of the voters: “the coherence of the proposals”.
A warning that this great regular in electoral campaigns formulated on the set of BFMTV: "If you say white one day and black the next day, the response of the media society, and by resonance effect of the French society, will be extremely severe,” he feared.
Looking closely, some of the remarks made by Valérie Pécresse during her election campaign precisely suffer from the defect so dreaded by her right arm.
This is particularly the case with the 10% increase in low wages, presented as the “flagship measure” of the program of presidential candidate LR to boost purchasing power.
Deemed too expensive by employers, who take a dim view of companies taking over pension contributions paid until then by employees, the terms of Valérie Pécresse's "shock" measure will ultimately depend on the goodwill of companies. .
Even if she had to review her copy, “the objective remains intact, even if there may be adjustments to the terms”, tempers the entourage of the candidate LR with the Parisian.
In detail, Valérie Pécresse's speech had already evolved significantly over time, as our video editing shows.
First reserved for employees earning up to 2.5 minimum wage, Valérie Pécresse then limited her measure to pay slips not exceeding 2.2 minimum wage.
“This means that someone who earns the minimum wage will have 10% more at the end of the year”, she explained in November at the microphone of Jean-Jacques Bourdin, thus suggesting a 10% increase in modest salaries. fully effective by the end of 2022. However, in other media interventions, Valérie Pécresse actually proposes to “increase net salaries by 10% over the five-year period”, in other words by 2027.
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To finance these reductions in employee contributions estimated at 25 billion euros each year, Valérie Pécresse is counting in particular on the fight against social and tax fraud, which she estimates at 15 billion euros per year, to top up the coffers of the 'State.
But in 2014, when the government then led by Manuel Valls announced a lasting reduction in taxes financed by the "results obtained in the fight against tax fraud", Valérie Pécresse challenged the calculation method of the Prime Minister.
“Since when do we finance a sustainable expenditure with an exceptional income?
“, she wondered in front of Ruth Elkrief.
“We are being sold wind”, decided the deputy of Yvelines, recalling that “the receipts from tax evasion are the receipts of a year”.
