LEAKS ON MEASURES EMMANUEL MACRON

I angry some of the retirees with the rise of the CSG. That is why the President must announce the reindexing of "pensions of less than 2,000 euros" on inflation in the short term, that is to say from 1 January 2020. "Pensions of less than 2,000 euros will be reindexed on inflation as of January 1, "according to this draft speech.

As a cost-saving measure, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced at the end of August that the increase in retirement pensions would be capped at 0.3% in 2019 and 2020, an unpopular measure which was added to the effect of the rise in CSG for some retirees.

On December 10, during a televised speech, Mr. Macron had already announced the cancellation, for 2019, of the planned increase in the CSG for retirees receiving less than 2,000 euros per month.

A drop in "taxes of the middle classes" will be financed in particular by "the suppression of certain tax loopholes." Prime Minister Édouard Philippe had referred to the "fiscal exasperation" as the main lesson of the great national debate launched in early January.

Among the measures in favor of purchasing power, the text also mentions that the exceptional bonus of € 1,000 tax-free and without social contributions, decided at the end of December 2018, will be "perpetuated" and open to employers "every year".

Regarding the wealth tax, the President of the Republic refuses as planned to restore it immediately but announces an "objective assessment" of the controversial reform of 2017, pledging on this basis to "make all the changes and necessary corrections ".

It is also planned to abolish certain tax loopholes. All this will be a reality from the beginning of next year.

Emmanuel Macron explains that he no longer wants "no closure of school and hospital until the end of the five-year period", "unless the mayors ask".

Acknowledging that "many of our fellow citizens feel that their territory is abandoned," the Head of State wants to "ensure the presence of public services" and "open a new act of our decentralization", including with "more officials on the ground, with greater responsibility, "" and fewer officials in Paris to write standards or create rules ". Emmanuel Macron sets the new ceiling at 24 pupils per class, from the large section of kindergarten to CE1, including outside REP.

To respond to the pressing demands of the Yellow Vests and some oppositions such as France insubordinate (LFI), Emmanuel Macron is therefore "favorable" to that referendums of citizen initiative (RIC) "can be organized on certain topics of interest local".

He is also "in favor of making more accessible, by simplifying the rules", the referendum of shared initiative (RIP), provided for by the Constitution but extremely complicated to implement. The RIP was introduced into law in 2008 by Nicolas Sarkozy but the implementing decree was only promulgated in December 2014.

The text of Emmanuel Macron's speech also provides that "an agreement of 300 citizens drawn by lot" will be installed "next month", in May. She will be in charge of "working on the ecological transition and the concrete reforms to take". For the last two years, the constitution of a citizens' assembly dealing with ecological issues has been proposed many times.

Finally, the President wants a new act of decentralization designed with elected officials and forces to simplify the "millefeuille".

The President of the Republic said he was in favor, according to his draft speech, to the abolition of ENA (National School of Administraton), which he himself graduated in 2004. The Head of State is favorable to a change of "training, selection, careers by removing the ENA and several other structures," according to the speech of his speech. "We need an elite, decision-makers," says Emmanuel Macron, who wants "all our young people to be given their chances based solely on their merit and not on their social or family background," according to the document

The fire of Notre-Dame de Paris has certainly upset the agenda of the President of the Republic, forced to postpone its announcements of exit of the "big debate" to later. But the French are impatiently waiting for the president to clarify the measures envisaged and the mode of governance.

 

Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld