Gabriel Attal lumped together Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen this Thursday, ensuring that the two leaders defended
“all-allocation software”
and were engaged in
“a fight against work”
. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen
“on labor and social issues, they are one and the same party
,” assured the head of government on the sidelines of a trip to the L’Oréal factory in Rambouillet.
“Extreme right and extreme left, same fight against work”
, their software
“is that of all allocation”
, he insisted.
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The Prime Minister announced on Wednesday a new “global” reform of unemployment insurance which would reduce the duration of compensation for the unemployed, at a time when social spending is in the sights of the executive to fill the deficit which has skidded the last year. It will be done
“by the fall
,” he confirmed Thursday.
“That still leaves a certain number of months to negotiate
,” he added, assuring that
“all stages of social dialogue will be respected
. ”
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“A less expensive, but more effective social model”
While a new unemployment insurance agreement, negotiated in the fall by trade union and employer organizations, should be validated shortly by the government, the idea of immediately putting the work back on the job has made the trade union organizations jump. and the opposition. Marine Le Pen notably denounced
“a scam which has only one goal: to pick the pockets of the French to replenish the State accounts which are in deficit because of the incompetence of the government”
.
Gabriel Attal, for his part, defended a reform project which
“encourages activity”
.
“I deeply believe that we can have a social model that is less costly, but more effective
,” he declared alongside Labor Minister Catherine Vautrin, who will be responsible for preparing the delicate negotiations.
“The more people you have working, the more revenue you have for our public policies
. ”
Asked about a possible turn in France towards austerity, the Prime Minister refused to use this term.
“It’s not our logic, it’s not our software
,” he insisted. But, he recalled,
“an over-indebted country is not a country free to make its choices”
.