There are some on the right still traumatized by the streak. March 2017, their candidate, François Fillon is standing in front of exhausted caregivers who explain to him their situation in an Ehpad. To those who want more human resources, the champion of the right, whom many already saw at the Elysée, retorts: “You want me to incur additional debt? » A sentence that froze, for the few weeks of presidential campaign that remained, the image of a man who offered only blood and tears to his fellow citizens. And which some on the right remain convinced that it was, as much as business, a catalyst for defeat.
Five years later, everything suggests that the candidate of the Les Républicains (LR) party, Valérie Pécresse, has learned the lesson well. She who is regularly reduced to a liberal, pro-business image, which she has never denied, never ceases to make proposals on social aid or to praise measures to increase purchasing power or wages.
Arrested on the set of BFM-TV on January 18 by a nursing assistant at the end of difficult months, the candidate of the right drew the possibility for the employee to exchange RTT for hard cash. “There are a lot of RTTs that are not taken and a lot of French people who would prefer to convert their free time into salary today to be able to earn more”, she explained, proposing to exempt from tax and charges the sums thus collected. A measure very inspired by the famous ” Work more to earn more ” of Nicolas Sarkozy, a formula which would have for many granted the victory to the candidate of right.
Traveling in the Lot the next day, she proposed that disabled adults could receive the survivor’s pension from their last living relative throughout their lives. In Le Figaro Monday, January 24, in addition to the much commented measure on inheritances from which she wants to exempt 95% of French people, the candidate proposed the establishment of a “allowance of 900 euros per year from the first child”. But also a 15% increase in this benefit for the second and third child. A generalization of the zero rate for first-time buyers of real estate throughout the territory (only areas in tension are concerned today) as well as a 3% increase in all wages from July 2022 have also is part of what resembled, in this interview, the hood of Mrs. Claus.
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