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Nicolas Sarkozy against attack. A penalty in the polls and criticized for its lack of new proposals, the president of the UMP presents the outline of the project “alternative” that it intends to propose to the French in a long interview at BBC to be published Monday, March 2
On the menu:. several possible economic reforms. The ideas are many, although they often have an air of déjà vu. Abolition of wealth tax, recovery of tax-free overtime, retirement at 63 years … Most of the proposals show that it has already put on the table since returning in September 2014. They themselves are largely inspired by his presidential campaign 2007 and 2012
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The only completely new proposal put forward: the simultaneous reduction of public spending and taxes
“The. NOW THE CENTER OF ALL THE DECISIONS “
During the interview, the former head of state defends the role of the company and a liberal conception of the economy . For him, “urgency will address the real business problems (…) We will commit no more or less a revolution of minds, free of all dogmas, to put the company, what its size and in all its dimensions, the center of all economic decisions of government. “
Advocating lower public spending, he repeated his desire to limit to 50% GDP, first by lowering the number of officials. “It will return to the rule of non-replacement of staff on two retiring and especially the imposing territorial public service” , he says, recalling his desire to create a new five-year contract in the public service for certain professions, such as computer.
It advocates new tax reconciliation with Germany, as he did when he was at the Elysee Palace, and said for the removal of the ISF. “The priority will be to strongly and simultaneously reduce spending and taxes” , he announces. Without commenting for a repeal of the 35 hours he reiterates his desire to give companies who wish to leave the possibility to do so by an internal negotiation.
“NO DOUBT THAT MA DETERMINATION “
Mr. Sarkozy reiterated his desire to restore the tax exemption of overtime, the key measure of his five years repealed by the left in September 2012. As for the legal age of retirement, he advocates the push after three years to 63 years mandate, “by reason of an increase in four months a year,” , after having increased to 62 in 2010.
To those who say that it does not make a credible alternate project likely to win support from a majority of voters, he said: “I have a strategy, a timetable, and I do not change it. My priority is to gather, get on with my political family and cauterize a party injured by the divisions and put it back to work. My role is to be the glue of the family and build a credible alternative.
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And to those who may be surprised to see less offensive than in the past, he says: “Since my return in September, I hit the road, and the road is long. Let no one doubt in my determination. “
” DE EN 49-3 setbacks … “
To pose as opposition leader, Mr Sarkozy denounced vigorously stock Hollande, citing blackheads his economic record: “zero almost three years of growth,” “almost 6 million job seekers registered at employment center in all categories” a “deficit” “deteriorated”. “Our economic situation is particularly distressing” , dramatizes the president of the UMP.
Not to berate the “brutality” in the tax policy of his predecessor “Since Francois Hollande was elected, the French were stunned by 40 billion euros in taxes and extra charges” , if he alarm. And declare that the Macron law will fail to boost growth and activity in France. “Of the 300 articles of the Law Macron in you see one that provides for lower taxes and that will increase growth? “, he asked, saying: ” In setbacks in 49-3, France is relegated to the back of the pack of European growth. “
Refusing to make a prognosis for departmental elections, Sarkozy is trying to roam a new slogan, the ” FNPS “ in equating Plan the Socialist Party and the National Front. “Vote for the FN in the first round, is to win the second left. This is the FNPS! “, he said, insisting: ” Vote for the UMP has however never saves the left. FN vote, though. The only electoral reality, the SSPF. “
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