This Monday, January 27, the head of government was on the set of the continuous channel LCI. This meeting was an opportunity to return to many important points including in particular the thousands of teaching positions in danger.
“We are not going to eliminate the 4,000 positions”in National Education in the 2025 budget, as envisaged by former Prime Minister Michel Barnier and this decision is “final”, indicated François Bayrou on Monday.
“I did not hide the fact that 4,000 positions registered is one thing. There still have to be candidates for the competitive examinations to become teachers”, added the Prime Minister on the LCI channel, a few days before a meeting of a joint committee, where seven deputies and seven senators will try to find a compromise on the draft finance bill for 2025, which fell with the censure of the previous government in December. “It's a way of saying that's our priority”, declared the head of government about National Education.
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“Stability of staff numbers”
The government announced on January 15 that it was reversing the elimination of the 4,000 posts in National Education initially planned in the Barnier government's draft budget, affirming “protecting” the school budget and thus acceding to one of the demands made by the socialists in the discussions aimed at avoiding censure. “We are moving towards stability of staff numbers”, had commented the Minister of National Education Elisabeth Borne in an interview with Le Parisien. “Which, in the context of the demographic decline, amounts to increasing the rate of supervision of students”.
Meanwhile in the Senate, the senatorial right had regretted during the continuation of the budget debates in the Upper House that the government had given up on eliminating these 4,000 posts in its negotiations with the socialists. Just before the censure, the majority right in the Senate had unanimously adopted a measure that it considered a compromise on the 4,000 eliminations, reducing them by half to limit them to 2,000 posts.