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The trap of reducing the number of civil servants

2021-11-09T17:19:51.793Z


DECRYPTION - This objective is always invoked by the candidates, but never respected by the presidents. A thorny question.


It's a classic presidential campaign: what fate in store for officials?

The more we cut, the more serious we would be… During the right-wing primary in 2016, François Fillon had the ambition to cut no less than 500,000 jobs.

Emmanuel Macron, he was satisfied with 120,000, including 50,000 within the State, not making his promise any more applicable.

The more his five-year term progressed, the more the French were in demand for public services and the more the Head of State lowered his ambitions.

Today, it assumes a stabilization of the workforce in the only side of the State.

A few tens of thousands of jobs have even been created, according to budget documents ...

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Although tricky, the battle on this theme has not lost its vigor.

It is now played on the right, while the Republican candidates seem to have already forgotten that Nicolas Sarkozy, to keep his commitment to remove 150,000 officials - a goal he has almost achieved

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Source: lefigaro

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