The president of the Republicans of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, returned on Tuesday to his controversial formula of “assistant cancer” by estimating that “today we are there.”
“If we want to straighten out public finances and the economy, the essential point is the difference between work and assistantship,” he said during a round table at the start of the school year for Entrepreneurs de France (Medef).
“Ten years ago -it happens to me that I have formulas that do not have the prudence that political diplomacy implies- I said: ‘The assistantship is going to be a cancer for our economy.’ Today, there we are”, added who had summoned the right on Sunday to prepare “the great meeting of 2027”.
“A social system that deconstructs the relationship with work”
In 2011, Laurent Wauquiez had criticized “the excesses of the assistantship”, a true “cancer of French society”.
“In political arbitrations, in the end you always end up with government bonuses and checks. The result today in our country is that there is no longer any incentive to work,” he estimated before the bosses.
According to him, “those who are on the minimum wage have no interest in working” because “our unemployment insurance system encourages going back and forth” between periods of work and “periods in which I recover the money I contributed.”
“All this has pharaonic costs,” added the elected Les Républicains, who lambasted “a social system that has destructured the relationship with work.”
For the regional president, “if you want to reactivate the engine of the French economy, there is a priority, it is work. If we had the same activity index as Germany, we would simply be there in ‘budget balance’.
He also advocated spending control, because “there is no fatality in the waste of public money” and “it is much less painful than we think, because there are sources of economy absolutely everywhere.”
Source: BFM TV
