Upbidding of proposals on the right on reducing the number of civil servants.
Three candidates for the nomination of the Republicans put forward their figures.
Valérie Pécresse wants to remove about 200,000. Eric Ciotti goes up to 250,000, excluding police, gendarmerie, justice and national defense.
Entrepreneur Denis Payre is proposing no less than 620,000 job cuts.
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For Valérie Pécresse, “
it is not a question of degrading the public service, nor of breaking the recovery.
But the expenses must go down
”.
In 2016, the candidates for the primary of the right had already competed for quantified proposals on this theme.
François Fillon proposed to remove up to 500,000, Alain Juppé and Nicolas Sarkozy 300,000.
"We need more police officers"
The other candidates declared for the nomination of the Republicans are more moderate. Michel Barnier, believes at the microphone of RTL that one cannot "
make the civil servants responsible when the State does not work
". Vis-à-vis the job cuts, he explains that he "
will not do that
", but that he is considering "
redeployments
". According to him, "
we need more police officers in the field, we need more better paid teachers
." For the former Brexit negotiator, "
we can reduce the operating costs of public power without lowering the level of quality of public service
".
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Questioned by Sud Radio, the president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand does not embark on a race for numbers either.
“
I think we should reduce the number of civil servants when retiring and terminating contracts, but I want to be able to tailor-make.
In
the hospital, for example, I won't touch the hair of a single caregiver, I think more is needed.
"
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Sébastien Chenu, spokesperson for the National Rally, is even more severe on the proposals made on the right concerning civil servants.
The elected RN judge on Franceinfo that a “
figure policy
” like the one put forward by Valérie Pécresse or Eric Ciotti is an “
aberration
”.
In 2017, the former National Front candidate included in her program an increase in the number of civil servants, but in a targeted manner.
The majority defends their record
The Minister of Public Transformation, Amélie de Montchalin, stepped up to the plate this Saturday against the proposals for the abolition of civil servant positions, in an interview given to the
Parisian
.
This idea would be a way for the right to "
try to hang up a liberal right-wing electorate that they have already lost
", according to the minister.
However, Emmanuel Macron himself pledged in 2017 to reduce the number of civil servants by 120,000, but the workforce remained stable during his five-year term.
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For Amélie de Montchalin, the President of the Republic "
has not reneged on
" his campaign commitment.
The current figures would be the consequence of the health crisis.
“
We take into account the reality of today, which is not the same as in 2017. We put public officials back in the territories.
This represents nearly 5,000 additional positions by 2022, without increasing the overall workforce
, ”defends the Minister.
In an analysis of the results of the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, the Institut Montaigne also notes that the expenditure of State personnel increased from 189 to 195.4 billion euros, between the 2019 finance bills. and 2021, an increase of 3.4%.
Proposals are long overdue on the left
On the left, there are still few proposals on this subject.
In an interview with the
Journal du Dimanche
on October 3, the candidate of the ecologists Yannick Jadot proposes to "
unfreeze the point of index in the public service
".
For the contender for the Élysée, "
catching up is essential, particularly at the start of a career, where wages are poor
".
On the hiring of contractual rather than civil servants in the public service, the ecologist however advances his opposition and regrets that one speaks "
civil servants and statutes, rather than nurse, teacher, police officer
".
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In 2019, Yannick Jadot already expressed his opposition to "
the logic defended by Parliament to completely modify the statutes of the public service
" on France 3, and denounced a "
budget, weakening, precariousness
" approach.
For the former director of Greenpeace campaigns, bringing the status of the public service closer to that of the private service seemed to him "
very healthy
".
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In 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed the creation of 200,000 civil servant positions, out of 420,000 new public jobs.
The Socialist Party candidate, Anne Hidalgo, has not yet made a concrete proposal on the subject.
In March 2017, however, she thanked the elected Parisian socialist Rémi Féraud for "
recalling the ambiguity, even the incoherence of the right on the issue of civil servants and public services
".
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This year, the mayor of Paris was however called to order by the prefect of Île-de-France, for not having implemented in his city the measures of the law of transformation of the public service, providing in particular increasing working time to 1,607 hours per year for civil servants.
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