End of the suspense on engagement income for young people. Emmanuel Macron will finally unveil, this Tuesday, the outlines of this device aimed at supporting young people furthest from the job market and training. How? 'Or' What ? Mystery ... The Head of State, who in the past has not hesitated to seize the codes of youth on social networks, spares the effect of surprise. One thing is certain: “In any case, young people are the president. He himself had called them a sacrificed generation. It is a stake in many respects, social and political ", slice a strategist of the government, blowing in the passage:" It is an important target for the presidential one. "
But that's not all.
The executive has concocted a choral communication operation, in the form of an offensive.
Jean Castex, surrounded by four ministers, Élisabeth Borne (Work), Emmanuelle Wargon (Housing), Brigitte Klinkert (Integration) and Sarah El Haïry (Youth) - no less - are thus expected, in parallel, in Vitry-sur-Seine ( Val-de-Marne) in order to discuss with young people engaged in support measures towards employment ...
A laborious childbirth
Youth engagement income? The president had promised it in his speech on July 12. This project has since been the subject of a showdown between Bercy and the Ministry of Labor. The delivery was laborious, between brakes linked to budgetary reasons and doubts about the capacity of the local missions to quickly ensure the ramp-up of the system. At the end of September, Emmanuel Macron had even asked Élisabeth Borne to review his copy… As for the tempo and the form of the announcements, they were the subject of many hypotheses. If some imagined waiting for the end of the school holidays, Jean Castex thus pleaded to lift the veil this week.
Depending on the preferred path, the device should, in fine, be much less ambitious than initially imagined and concern 500,000 to 600,000 young people aged 16 to 25 per year, instead of the million envisaged this summer.
"It is less broad, but it will be more resources concentrated on fewer young people", pleads in advance an adviser to the executive.
“It's very complicated to create something that affects different profiles,” breathes a Walker, worried about “the kids who are outside the system”.
The executive also knows that it is expected at the turn
It remains to be seen how these announcements will be received.
In our columns, Laurent Berger, the boss of the CFDT thus warned that he would give voice "with youth organizations in particular", if the chosen option seemed to him to be below the hand.
But the executive also knows that it is expected at the turn by the opposition, in particular from the right, which accuses it of carrying out a “checkbook” strategy six months before the presidential election.
What, finally, of the majority, whose left wing impatiently awaited this social measure?
Jean Castex, expected at the meeting of the LREM group in the Assembly, will have the opportunity to take his pulse on Tuesday morning.
