As the 2022 presidential election approaches, the number of civil servants in France is once again entering the debate, particularly on the right. Valérie Pécresse has announced that she wants to cut 200,000 positions in the
"administering administration".
Eric Ciotti for his part mentioned a drop of 250,000 jobs. Xavier Bertrand and Michel Barnier do not risk entering the battle of numbers. Philippe Juvin, mayor of La Garenne-Colombes and head of emergencies at the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris, for his part, offers an alternative, by distributing the workforce differently.
Emmanuel Macron himself pledged in 2017 to reduce the number of civil servants by 120,000, but the workforce increased very slightly during his five-year term.
In 2019, their number had increased by 0.3% and this increase continued in 2020, according to the latest report published by the Ministry of Transformations and the Civil Service, which estimates that 36,000 civil servant positions were created
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