Please do not disturb Valls, it is in the countryside – Le Point

The episode happened curiously unnoticed. It is a journalist from Le Figaro Anne Rovan, who recounted in an article on the movement of the head of government in the Val-de-Marne, Thursday, March 26, to support candidates the left. When he questioned the ?? – ?? bad – unemployment figures in February, which have just been published, he replied: “I’m on the highway I do not do two things at a time You need.. used to it. ” Nevermind the unpleasant nature of the formulation. It is primarily on the merits that this statement is meaningless. Since the beginning of the campaign, Manuel Valls tries to show, on the contrary, he is able to do two things at once: governing and campaigning. The first activity is mandatory, the second is optional.

Even if he beats the stands, the prime minister must first conduct the policy of France, as stipulated in the Constitution. Still more incomprehensible, in addition to being offensive, his remarks can be against-productive: the vast majority of French certainly lead the government considers that, in these difficult times, is time employment more than complete. Of course, institutions are well made that the Prime Minister is also the head of the majority. Thus Lionel Jospin, first secretary of the Socialist Party, Laurent Fabius, prime minister, had argued in 1986 the management of the electoral campaign. Times have changed since the current PS first secretary, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis is the invisible man of the departmental. Is it because nature abhors a vacuum, and the Rue de Solferino is not up to it? Or because the Elysée and Matignon deal with electoral kitchen more than they should?

Unemployment? Not a good campaign theme

Manuel Valls not responding on unemployment, yet essential question that his government will be judged when he is on the board of France 3 hours after (not) statement in the Val-de-Marne. There, he chose to hammer his “talking points”, even if they do not answer the question. It highlights the “encouraging signs” that gives the economy. And it even has a surprise. The 2014 budget deficit was lower than expected ?? – 4% of GDP against an estimate of 4.4%, a slight decrease from 2013 (4.1%)

We are very far from the topic of unemployment, but who cares, the good news is so rare. No way to extend not more about the reasons for this apparent slight improvement in public finances. Low interest rates, on the one hand, have reduced the debt service. So much the better, even if only for a windfall. It is not, on the other hand, operating expenses that are inflected, but investment has declined. This means that the state and especially local authorities are unable to reduce their standard of living, and that is by cutting plans for the future that is fit. Manuel Valls but it obviously does not speak. He did not have time. It has a campaign on the arm.