Manuel Valls: “Equality is the battle of that government” – Les Echos

Manuel Valls: "Equality is the battle of that government" – Les Echos

Prime Minister defended this Wednesday evening the concept of “pre-distribution” in addition to the redistribution. And advocated the creation of a “universal social account” to secure career paths

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A close foundation of PS. And dear to the left theme. Just hours after the presentation with great fanfare the Macron law, Manuel Valls discoursed Wednesday night on “equality” in Paris before the foundation Jean Jaurès. The opportunity for the Prime Minister to try to show that this constitutive of the identity of the left is at the heart of its policy and even, according to a close, “the vallsien software.” But also to correct its image, the game down a bit while his interview with “L’Observateur” at the end of October, had been very badly lived in the PS.

Throughout his long speech, described as “important” by his entourage, Manuel Valls celebrated “passion for equality which allowed the major social achievements” and remains “a modern combat.” “There is no fate,” he insisted, making equal “moral principle” and “social purpose” and posing as heir to the left that “fight injustice and not resign. ”

“Equality is the battle of that government,” he argued, citing pell-mell on retirement at age 60 for those who started work early, modulation of family allowances, taking into account the hardship, marriage for all or gender. The popular classes, however, were a little more devious PS since 2012. “We can never accept that the excluded feel defended by populism,” Manuel Valls criticized.

” continuous thread “

A big gap? The prime minister defended himself, swearing that there is “a continuous thread” between his interview with “L’Observateur” and his speech tonight between his defense of Macron Law and inequality. Wednesday night, he called the left to “get out of the Thirty Glorious software” to “rethink our model.”

“I’m not one to think that being left simply to search the archives of the past, in the archives of history; written responses and found all the challenges of today and tomorrow, “he said, posing as the herald of a modern left” lucid “, which” includes companies “and” encourages the winners “while having the concern of the losers.” A left that does not just redistribute, correct inequalities, “always too late, often at the margin,” but is struggling to find a “virtuous circle of growth” and make public spending “effective.”

Pique with slingers

In a pique the slingers, the tenant Matignon said see “a lack of ambition and even a strategic impasse not think equality that through fiscal redistribution “. He defended himself, in addition to the redistribution, the concept of “pre-distribution”. In other words: “prevention rather than cure.” “This is what we do,” he assured, referring to the plan against smoking, access to health care or housing, education or vocational training.

He also called for a “universal social account” to secure career paths. A “great tool for real equality, has he said. It would bring together “for each individual, all portable fees to secure their careers.”

Basically, Manuel Valls is clearly wants one that can allow the left to “rehabilitate political speech” and “reinventing”. The question is whether he could convince his own troops. “The bougisme, it works if there are results,” quips a part of the PS, François Hollande who dreams that change of prime minister after the next county election.

Pierre-Alain Furbury