Jean-Louis Borloo pleads for “a team of mechanics from the Republic” and “French-style federalism”

Former centrist minister Jean-Louis Borloo pleads Monday for the establishment of “a team of mechanics of the Republic” in the presidential election, without specifying who would lead it, the objective of which would be to establish “a French-style federalism” because France suffers from “an organizational problem”.

“We are in a presidential religion which is completely insane. The level of degradation we are in requires a recovery team, mechanics from the Republic. If you don’t have an ultra-prepared team on all subjects, it won’t work,” argued the founder of the centrist UDI party on Franceinfo. “Mechanics are those who know roughly how machines work,” explained Jean-Louis Borloo who is launching this Monday afternoon “a tour of mechanics” in Épinal (Vosges).

“It’s in Paris that it’s completely blocked”

According to him, “we are at the end of a centralized, bureaucratized system, which has a pulmonary embolism.” “When you fail in almost all areas, housing, education, hospitals, whatever the quality of the teams, republican integration, youth, the judicial chain, etc., it is probably because you have an organizational problem,” he judged.

According to him, “all mayors” agree with this diagnosis, “almost all regional presidents”, “many department presidents”, “entrepreneurs”, “trade unionists” but “it is in Paris that it is completely blocked”. “We cannot have a system” where the regional presidents Carole Delga (Occitanie), Hervé Morin (Normandy), Valérie Pécresse (Île-de-France) and Loïg Chesnais-Girard (Brittany) “are in agreement”, despite their labels, “and where we continue the presidential election as it is”, he regretted.

“It is absolutely necessary that we can trust the Bretons, the Normans, the Corsicans, in the management of the daily life of their existence,” he pleaded. In “this French-style federalism”, the central State would only be concerned with “the major issues, space, research, security, equity, justice, tax collection”.