what do the candidates propose concerning the civil service?

The public service will go on strike Thursday, January 27, in particular to demand salary increases. Civil servants could be at the heart of the debates in the presidential election of 2022. On the side of Valérie Pécresse, “the abolition of civil servant posts remains a totem” according to journalist Thierry Curtet, present on the set of 23 hours of Franceinfo Wednesday, January 26. “She actually wants to cut 200,000 jobs to rehire 50,000 with three priorities: care, safety and education”, he reports. Jean-Luc Mélenchon would like to “combat precariousness in the public service, in particular by establishing contract workers. It’s important, it’s 20% of the workforce. He also wants to create 130,000 jobs: 60,000 teaching jobs, 60,000 nursing jobs and 10,000 positions in the judiciary.

Marine Le Pen “does not want a massive plan to cut the number of civil servants. On the contrary, it wants to hire 7,000 to 8,000 positions in the judiciary”, says the journalist. The RN candidate also wishes “recruitment in security”, “helping teachers” by offering “increases of ten billion euros to upgrade their profession” and advocates for the abolition of regional health agencies. Anne Hidalgo counts, she, “significantly increase teachers. She also wants better paid caregivers and she also wants to focus on early childhood”, according to Thierry Curtet. In 2017, Emmanuel Macron had promised 120,000 job cuts among civil servants. “It’s a promise he assumes he hasn’t kept”explains the journalist.