Bruno Retailleau
State, institutions and administration
31 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 19 · Campaign proposal or statement : 12
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Extend legislative referendums to every subject and shield referendum laws from judicial review.
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Constitutional amendment remains under Article 89; the proposed shield covers any judge and legal text. Updated 22 September 2026.
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Allow the President to refer a struck-down law to voters or Congress to authorise promulgation.
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Amend Article 62; Congress would require three fifths of votes cast. Updated 22 September 2026.
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Create a constitutional safeguard allowing a statute to override certain treaty interpretations.
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Decision through referendum or organic law, with constitutional review on the parliamentary route; EU law handled separately. Reversibility stated. Updated 22 September 2026.
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Reduce the citizen threshold for shared-initiative referendums to one twentieth of the electorate and open them to all subjects.
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Around 2.5 million according to the campaign. The text does not explicitly remove the parliamentary threshold; signatures do not automatically guarantee a referendum. Updated 22 September 2026.
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Subject economic regulation to enforceable independent pre-clearance with veto.
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Independent assessment, SME test, quantified cost, one-in/one-out by value; Brussels monitoring including trilogues; no gold-plating. Statutes limited to principles, detail by regulation; state-supervised local adaptations where productive projects require them.
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Leave 400000 public retirements unreplaced and abolish/reintegrate the cited 1153 agencies/operators.
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Over term, no dismissals. Zero-based intervention budgets; end negatively evaluated programmes>€500 munless Parliamentvotes otherwise. Claimed €56 bn savings including €25 bn retirements; remaining submeasures only referenced, annex needed. Check overlap with 125000 AI retirements; no unsupported addition.
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Target 250000 full-time-equivalent public work-time gains through AI by 2032, half redeployed and half retirement non-replacement.
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No dismissals;125000 paid agents redeployed to public contact/care/investigation/inspection, 125000 retirements unreplaced. Secure assistant for every agent, AI ministry/state technology director and annual service-level gains publication.€5 bn term transformation budget; claimed~€7.5 bn wages+€4 bn procurement+€3–4 bnfraud, ~€15 bn/year eventual deficit savings, unverified.
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Create Marianne, a free administrative assistant under French jurisdiction retaining human channels.
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Plain-language requests, rights identification, prefilling existing data and tracking; retain desk/phone/post. No new file claimed; informs/prepares/transmits without decisions, no refusal solely from automation, retain appeal. Within 10-10€5 bn, not an additional envelope.
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Referendums on all legislation.
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Popular override after judicial rejection.
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National safeguard clause.
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Lower shared-initiative referendum threshold.
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Remove 100 priority regulations.
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Cap regulatory costs.
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Trust-based administration.
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Operations/agencies: claimed €56bn.
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State remit: claimed €32bn.
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AI administrative simplification.
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Marianne administrative assistant.
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Require public quarterly ministerial progress reports by measure, with framework laws from year one.
Note: Campaign answer with no publication date; it differs on some points from the detailed pages.
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Announced first day: convene Parliament on security, launch immigration referendum and labour-charge/EPR2 budget; voting timetable separate.
Note: Campaign answer with no publication date; it differs on some points from the detailed pages.
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Constitutional referendum planned autumn 2027 then legislative referendum summer 2028 on expulsion, quotas and benefits; says he would leave if voters reject it.
Note: Campaign answer with no publication date; it differs on some points from the detailed pages.
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Apply 1623 effective public-sector hours, cut operator structures and impose three waiting days.
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400000 unreplaced retirements across three branches;AI 150000 positions removed+150000 redeployed, 1623 hours near 100000 FTEs; differs from 15 Oct HTML 125000/125000.2032 savings rows:€25 bnretirements, €5 bnnon-retirement contract/voluntary exits, €7.5 bnagencies/grants, €11.5 bnzero-base, €4 bnstate-local duplicates, €3 bnabsence/waiting days/authorisations. No dismissals claimed; non-renewal distinct.
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Set non-staff operating standards for 2232 local authorities with budgets>€10 m.
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Comparable size/remit/tax-wealth groups, management adjustment; freedoms/deregulation/voluntary reorganisation in return. Certified accounts and deficit before grants.€10 bn 2032 excluding staff/investment/social benefits, under local discretion; local retirements already counted infiche 3.
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Put constitutional revision to a referendum in autumn 2027 and leave office if rejected.
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Page 6 says upon election; page 17 specifies autumn 2027. Page 7 ties departure to rejection of this revision, while the FAQ refers to two votes; reconciliation held. EU annulment and infringement avenues announced, without independent legal validation.
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Extend legislative referendums to any subject and reduce RIP citizen support to one twentieth of the electorate.
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Threshold described as about 2.5 million; not a citizen-only initiative without parliamentarians. Text recalls one fifth of parliamentarians without proposing its removal. Constitutional revisions remain under Article 89 with identical text from both chambers. Referendum legislation proposed to be shielded from all judicial challenge on any basis.
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Allow the president to seek referendum or Congress approval to override constitutional invalidation.
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Amend Article 62; Congress requires three fifths of votes cast to authorise promulgation. Juvenile-justice law offered as motivation, not an already applicable rule.
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Add a Republican Charter abolishing simple birthright nationality and specifying secularism.
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Nationality through descent or verified assimilation; public-service neutrality may extend to users; origin or religion does not exempt from common rules; constitutional protection for Judeo-Christian traditional festivities such as nativity scenes. Not a general ban on all religious signs in every public space.
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Sequence the 2027 revision before criminal-justice and immigration referendums in 2028.
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Autumn 2027 constitution; spring 2028 criminal law (minimums, minority rules, detention, monitoring); summer 2028 immigration (benefits, family, removal, AME, nationality). Proposed political sequence, not an official election schedule.
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Mobilise 250,000 public FTEs by 2032, half redeployed and half unreplaced retirements.
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125,000 front-line redeployment without payroll saving and 125,000 unreplaced retirements without dismissal, €7.5 bn/year payroll. Procurement €4 bn+fraud 3–4 gives≈15 total at maturity, not 15 plus 7.5.2027–28 start/2031–32 target, annual service reporting; no education AIjob cuts proposed. Turing/UK/IGF examples are campaign justifications, original reports not read here. Differs from 12 Octoberbudget 150,000+150,000.
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Create Marianne for administrative requests, a secure assistant per official and central AIgovernance.
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France Connect/Identitydata/administrative access; tools for cases/fraud/procurement/aid/courts/maintenance/checks, human time for complexity and Frenchmedical AIon health data. Full minister+CTO architecture/procurement/sovereignty/programmes and central transformation budget; local Starter Packsupport.€5 bnnew: 1 Marianne+1.8 business tools+1.2 licences/cloud/integration/inference+1 training. Three-minute pension/seven-to-three-hour care-wait examples are aspirations, not proven services.
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