For him, “the government has taken a step in the right direction”, but “this must be continued”. The president of the Republicans Éric Ciotti pleads this Friday in The echoes to go “much further in the reduction of unemployment benefits”, which are, according to him “an obvious obstacle to the return to full employment”.
A reform of unemployment insurance that came into force in February has reduced the duration of compensation for new job seekers by 25%. For the year 2024, the government wishes to include the controversial question of modulation of allowances according to the economic situation in the upcoming negotiations between the social partners.
“Savings on the RSA”
The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes is also in favor of achieving “savings on the RSA, by imposing strong counterparties”. “We must focus on social spending, which has gone from 12% of total spending in the 1960s to 34% today, when the sovereign has seen its share melt from 6 to 3%”, explains also in The echoes.
Asked about the risk of a motion of censure LR at the start of the school year on the budget or the public finance programming law, Éric Ciotti assures us that it “does not work by threat”. But “our proposals are responsible and reasonable, the government must integrate them,” he adds. The President (LR) of the Senate Gérard Larcher had recently warned the executive about the “risk of accidentology” of the budgetary period, which could, according to him, lead to government censorship.
Calling for “a revolution of debureaucratization”, the boss of the right-wing party also believes that the subject of indebtedness which “threatens to strangle our country” is “not taken seriously by Emmanuel Macron”.