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Henri de Castries, the former president of Axa, explains why he joined François Fillon, and why the programs of other candidates are at best herb tea, at worst poisons for France.

What drives a former boss of CAC 40 to want to engage in politics?

I am free and it is a great privilege. I want to use my freedom of speech because our country, Europe and the world are at a turning point. Our generation is witnessing a rebalancing, if not at the end of the Western world, at least at the end of its pre-eminence. The fundamental power of climatic and demographic movements that cause migration is always forgotten. Of the ten countries whose populations are declining in the world, eight are in Europe. What has made it strong since the beginning of the twentieth century is its capacity to make parliamentary democracy predominate. This is based on two pillars: individual freedom and acceptance by all of the principle of majority. These are Judeo-Christian roots and this is what distinguishes us from other models. Our generation lived on the assumption that this model was an acquired, we realize it is a fight. It is not due, it deserves and it defends itself. If we are not able to do it, it will disappear.

What kind of analysis do you have of Europe?

Europe is a besieged fortress whose outer wall is yielding but whose central keep, the euro zone, holds, for the one who was in command has used with intelligence the weapons at his disposal. But he used boiling pitch reserves; There is nothing left in case of next assault. So, how to re-arm the dungeon and reconquer the place? By structurally reforming countries within the euro zone that have not yet done so, and starting with France. French reform is one of the keys to the European reform.

How is Emmanuel Macron's program falsely reformist?

He never goes through the reforms, he is mistaken about priorities, and the solutions he proposes do not fit in between them. How can it reform labor law without affecting the 35 hours? Emmanuel Macron's proposal on unemployment insurance is a formidable sleight of hand. After having advocated, in his great philosophical principles, transversality and parity negotiation, he explained that he would nationalize Unédic. Secondly, it proposes not to reduce the benefits, not to tighten the mechanism of constitution of the rights and to increase the number of beneficiaries. It is counting on a drop in the unemployment rate to generate billions of euros in savings. Who can believe it?

Would you call Emmanuel Macron cynical?

The man is friendly, but he is a masked candidate and his constituents do not know, on each of the big stakes, whether he will go left or right and with what majority he will rule. Like François Hollande: he makes promises knowing that he will not be able to keep them. What interests him is the job, it's not the mission! François Hollande's record is calamitous and Emmanuel Macron carries a large share of responsibility, for he was for four years the co-driver. Who came to vigorously defend the Holland tax program in 2012 at the Institut Montaigne? Jérôme Cahuzac and Emmanuel Macron.

I have my reservations about François Bayrou's judgment, which everyone knows he managed to make the UDF, which was the largest opposition party when Giscard left it, a telephone booth! These comparisons are easy and irrelevant. Renzi as Kennedy and Trudeau rely on or rely on a team and parties. If Emmanuel Macron is elected, do you know his 577 candidates for the legislative elections?

You talk about the economic integrity of France and Europe, but what is at stake in 2017 is not cultural integrity?

Europe and France can only maintain their cultural model if it is possible to have a prosperous Europe. Three things are important: security, dignity in employment and equality of opportunity at school, driving the social lift. Clearly, security, competitiveness and education. In France, the three dysfunction.

What measures must Francois Fillon take urgently to guarantee this economic prosperity?

It proposes reducing the level of French public expenditure to five years in line with the European average. The driving force behind competitiveness is investment and employment. It wants to tackle the taxation of investment and the fluidity of the labor market. The money must be left in the hands of those who create it, for they know how to reinvest it instead of engulfing it in additional public expenditure for plasters. Then, on the labor market, you have to break the thresholds and especially the 35 hours ...

Is not this program likely to be perceived as too brutal?

What is brutal is what will happen if the next French government does nothing. In this election, the programs of Benoît Hamon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen are violent poisons. That of Emmanuel Macron is herbal tea. François Fillon's program is vitamin. As for Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, it constitutes a grave peril by dispersing the voices of the right.

Is that a danger?

A number of good faith voters think that voting for him is voting for a reasonable sovereignist right. No, in reality, it's like voting Macron, Mélenchon or Le Pen. Look at the issue: we can end up with a 2002 upside down, it may be the Taubira of the right and deprive France and the French of a necessary alternation. I do not deny the legitimacy of his candidacy for the presidential election, but no one can think he has an ability to govern. And for an election of this order, one can not try to indulge in pleasure and then regret the evening of the first round.

You are an officer, an officer's son, an officer's grandson. Does the military program of Fillon seem to you up to the stakes?

The only subject on which France is still respected internationally is the military subject: we have nuclear weapons and a great ability to intervene French forces on outdoor theaters. For the armies, François Fillon at the head of the State is the certainty of not having a novice. When you accept to give the gift of your life, what you owe in exchange is to have someone who understands the strategic issues. The fact of committing a gradual increase of the defense budget to 2% of GDP is a fundamental element. What does Macron propose? A new military service, summer camps with 15 billion investment, 3 billion annual expenditures, mobilizing 15,000 officers in an oversold army. As for Mélenchon, it would be a unilateral disarmament in an increasingly dangerous world.

There has been a lot of controversy about Francois Fillon's plan, notably the abolition of civil service posts.

Five hundred thousand public servants out of the current 6 million, this represents 8% of job cuts in five years, that is to say 1.6% per year. This is much less than for competitive companies. The public service must participate in collective efforts, otherwise it is not tenable. One place in the world has largely withstood the tsunami of digital and computer science and the massive productivity gains that have resulted from it: the French administration. The difference is there: the digital makes today possible services of much better quality with reduced manpower.

Do you have the impression that Francois Fillon's problems have strengthened him in his convictions?

I know him well, he rarely backs off: he imposed the telecom reform against Jacques Chirac, he who reformed the pensions without flinching in front of the millions of demonstrators, he who was still prime minister during the reform of the universities. I had no doubt about his determination. But I never would have thought that he would take such a tsunami of this type with such violence. Today, it's hardened steel.

The maturity of French voters is sufficient to make them not susceptible to an attempt to purchase voting by a symbolic demagogic measure. I reproach Emmanuel Macron very much what he says about the tax on housing, it is the last tax that almost all our fellow citizens pay. And we want to exempt 80% of the French? Imagine a condominium in which only 20% of the owners pay 100% of the expenses: if you are part of the 80%, you will constantly ask for additional work since you do not pay them. And if you are in the 20%, you will leave. At the end, there will remain 95% of people who will pay nothing in a degraded building! Democracy, in order to last, implies equitable participation of all in public office.

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