Monday, February 7, the Minister of Transformation and Public Function took advantage of the launch of a website intended to seduce “new talents” to criticize the proposals of presidential candidates.
When his candidate is not a candidate, we are obliged to campaign without campaigning. Monday, February 7 at the end of the day, two reception rooms from the hotel of Rothelin-Charolais, in Paris, had been transformed by impressive retransmission studio. Decor, projectors and technicians with helmets on the head in one, complete control in the other. Everywhere, sons ran along the woodwork of the XVIII e century. The Ministry of Transformation and Public Service had put small dishes in the big ones to launch its “employer brand”.
As mistress of ceremonies, Minister Amélie de Montchalin started the event broadcast live on Twitter by a speech. “I’m talking to all of you today, and especially you the youngest who we listen to,” she launched. “I have a message: Join us! Come reinforce our utilities! Come and support it!” In support of his appeal, she announced the launch of a new website, a platform to raise awareness public service trades and “attracting new talents”. From this year, 45,000 job offers will be gathered and all future recruitment campaigns are intended to find echo there. Amélie de Montchalin then interviewed live seven public agents who came to explain what they did and why they had engaged.
If such a communication operation is needed, the minister explained is because public services no longer attract young people. In twenty-five years, the number of candidates who present themselves to the State’s competitions was divided by three. And “just to ensure public service missions, we need to recruit 100,000 people each year.”
The fault to whom? “The clichés of the daily lives, denounced the minister. Those who depict a Kafkayan world, dysfunctional counters, mountains of papers, too heavy hierarchy, routines too installed.” But, most importantly, the wrong image of the public service is due to “campaign speeches”, to the “Protection of Astrade, which have damaged public officials and our utilities”.
Defense of the balance sheet of Macron
And if the target was not clear enough for those who listened to it, Amelie de Montchalin insisted: his speech is “very different from those who tell you that we could remove 200,000 jobs”. Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the Republicans in the presidential election, proposes to close 200,000 positions of civil servants, and to create 50,000 in the priority missions of the State. “I said to you,” she warned at another time, he is no longer time to listen to those who repeat the same renovates on the “too many officials” “. The minister went well to remember that Emmanuel Macron himself had promised the removal of 120,000 posts during the 2016 campaign, before waiving it during his term.
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