"The French are ahead of the politicians"
 

Guest of the APM breakfasts, the young economist denounces a "French bashing" which does not correspond to today's society. "A majority of winners exist," he says.








 

 

 

Change ? “The French are ready for it! “says Robin Rivaton, a young 27-year-old economist, adviser to a big boss. Supporting statistics, he notes that more and more young people want to create their own business and that “the relationship to globalization has changed”. From evil, it has become a reality that must be tamed to better master it. “France is a country very open to external innovation”; “it is the one who consumes the most foreign cultural products”; “it easily adopts new technologies”… So why such an ambient pessimism?

 

The technostructure is more resistant to change. Often in contact with the most unfortunate, politicians have a distorted vision of society. “It is the losers of change who mobilize; the Frenchman who does not vote is a reformist”. This is the one you have to convince to vote. By inspiring them if possible!

 

For Robin Rivaton, François Fillon's program is undoubtedly the most successful for the time being, but "there is a coating problem". It is difficult to mobilize by promising blood and tears. Alain Juppé put his teams to work. Xavier Bertrand reflects on new ideas. One thing seems certain: "When a candidate lies about the diagnosis, he can do nothing afterwards", as evidenced by the difficulties of Alain Juppé, in 1995: how to conduct a rigorous policy when the President of the Republic has been elected on the reduction of the "social divide"?

 

Beyond the program, there is also doing. “The real problem is knowing how to implement the chosen policies,” insists the young economist. The techniques of management and adaptation to change deserve to be known to politicians...