This is one of the projects launched by the Head of State after the appointment of Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister on January 9. Emmanuel Macron indicated that he wanted, during his press conference given at the Élysée on Wednesday January 17, measures “to enable you to earn a better living through work”.
The President of the Republic saw as a « fundamental injustice » the fact that “effort and merit are not sufficiently recognized”. “We are undoubtedly the country in Europe where the purchasing power of workers, of the lowest-income workers, has increased the most over the last five years despite inflation”affirmed Emmanuel Macro, while admitting that “that’s not enough”.
“A France of the blind spot”
“And basically, there is what I would call a France of the blind spot. It is all our compatriots who already earn too much to be helped and not enough to live well. It is popular France, the France of the middle classes, the France which says: ”When you suggest something, it’s never for me” »estimated the head of state.
“At the heart of the government’s mandate, I hope that there will be ardent work to go further to recognize this, to give more dynamism to careers, to make it possible to earn a better living through work, with “adaptation of tax and social measures but also with negotiations in certain sectors so that the salary dynamic matches the efforts”added the speaker.
Apart from the inter-professional minimum wage for growth (Smic), the State is not able to impose increases in gross remuneration in the private sector, the executive rejecting a reinstatement of the automatic indexation of salaries to inflation . The government is, however, likely to encourage trade unions and employers’ organizations to increase minimum wages at the level of « branches » professional and to implement fiscal and social measures in favor of purchasing power.
Support for the latter will notably involve a reduction in taxes for ” middle classes “. “We will have, among other things, in our financial trajectory, two billion tax cuts on our compatriots who are in these categories in 2025”, confirmed Emmanuel Macron, without specifying which households will benefit from this reduction. According to him, “the government will return to the details of the measure”.
“The president is committed, and obviously we will meet his commitment” for a reduction in taxes, said the new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, on January 11 on TF1.
Better consideration of “merit” in the work of civil servants
According to Emmanuel Macron, taking work into account must also concern “our civil servants, for whom the main criterion for advancement and remuneration must be, alongside seniority, also merit, in any case much more than today. This will be at the heart of a reform which will begin in the coming weeks”.
If the government of Gabriel Attal as composed on January 11 does not include a delegate minister responsible for the civil service, the head of state plans to reappoint Stanislas Guerini, who held this portfolio until the resignation of the government of ‘Élisabeth Borne, two days earlier. During a reception with parliamentarians from the majority on Monday evening, Emmanuel Macron indicated that Stanislas Guerini will lead the reform of the civil service, according to a source cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
A political strategy: addressing RN voters
The presidential remarks on work are part of a political strategy: addressing the voters of the National Rally (RN) and trying to avoid the coming to power of the far-right party, which, claiming to defend employees and self-employed to the lowest incomes, denounces on the one hand people receiving social assistance, on the other hand the urban elites or supposed such.
Through expression « angle mort », used in road safety, Emmanuel Macron speaks indirectly to people forced to use their vehicles to get to work and particularly affected by inflation. The “yellow vest” movement in 2018-2019 was a symptom of the difficulties of these people. As during the health crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the President of the Republic is trying to bring symbolic recognition to this France “who holds the country”.
2024-01-22 18:55:18
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