Jean-Michel Blanquer mentioned in the columns of the Parisian the proposal of Anne Hidalgo, who wants to double the salaries of teachers if she was elected to the Elysee Palace. A measure that the Minister of Education described as “the summit of demagoguery”.
In this long interview granted to our colleagues, Jean-Michel Blanquer did not mince his words, stating in particular: “The presidential election cannot be a Fair of the Throne of demagoguery”. Then to specify: “This measure proposed by Anne Hidalgo would have a cumulative cost of 150 billion at the end of the five-year term”.
If he admits that it is imperative to “strongly increase the remuneration of teachers”, the Minister of Education insisted on recalling that “a teacher who earned 1,700 euros previously now earns 1,869 euros net. And within two or three years, no new teacher will start his career below 2,000 euros net per month, ”he said.
An “inadmissible” remuneration for Anne Hidalgo
In her book “A French woman”, to be published this Wednesday, September 15, Anne Hidalgo, who formalized her candidacy for the presidential election of 2022 this Sunday, proposes to “multiply by at least two” the remuneration of teachers, and calls to a “great movement to revalue wages”.
Faced with the declarations of Jean-Michel Blanquer, the socialist mayor of Paris kept the same line of conduct, affirming on France Inter that it was “unacceptable that our teachers – we could say the same thing about our caregivers – are so little paid “. Then to add: “I think that on education as on health, which are two great essential public services, it is necessary to put the package”.