Overview
- Les Républicains published a 38-page program presenting a break with France’s social‑statist model to boost pay from work and curb dependency.
- The plan proposes exiting the 35-hour framework by annualizing hours and creating a zero‑contribution zone for work beyond a new 1,623‑hour reference threshold.
- Retailleau would replace the RSA with a Revenu d’incitation à l’activité requiring 15 hours of weekly activity and allow calibrated earnings cumulation.
- A single social account would cap total benefits at 70% of the minimum wage, with at least €10 billion targeted from this redesign and about €13 billion from tighter unemployment rules.
- The package, inspired in part by François Fillon’s 2016 pre-campaign, has sharpened internal LR debate and prompted fresh speculation about Retailleau’s presidential ambitions reported by Europe 1.