Marine Le Pen passes a great oral in front of business leaders

The candidate of the national gathering, who has abandoned the idea of ​​the exit of the euro since the last presidential election, intends to reassure the economic circles.

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Marine Le Pen seeks to get rid of a “Captain Haddock”: an image of incompetender in economics about which she is “not duplicated,” she says, but also a line too ” on the left “to the taste of the electorate it covets to dig the gap with Valérie Pécresse in the polls.

It is in the lounges of the interall, Thursday, January 27, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, that she wanted to get rid of this “caricature”. About fifty business leaders, including some bosses of groups and a representative of the banking federation, had come to listen to decline his economic program at the invitation of Ethic, a small employer lobby of three hundred TPE-SMEs, who affirms “say all the top what everyone thinks”, in front of two tables of journalists.

The candidate, who claims “of the people”, exalted, one hour during, the “labor value” and the bosses like “the alpha and omega” of the country’s march. It recalled its opposition to the increase in the SMIC and the participation of 50% of employers in employees’ fuel expenses.

Contribution deletions

She criticized Valérie Pécresse, who had promised to increase wages in net up to 2.2 SMIC by 10%, before modifying her project against the criticism of the patronat. Itself wants to exonerate contributions companies that will increase wages by 10% up to three smics.

Then she announced her gifts: Total suppression of the corporate land contribution (CFE) and end of the social solidarity contribution of companies (C3S) in “relocation zones”. “I have nothing against large groups, but they are the least needed,” she added … even if the C3S applies only to companies in turnover exceeding the 19 million euros.

To minimize government aid, she repeated that she would not have closed businesses after spring 2020: “It reminds me Coluche: File me your wallet and I will schedule you hundred balls.” And, a little Like the great debate after the crisis of “yellow vests”, it suggested a “comprehensive book of companies. Without waiting, the participants formulated their claims.

Assistance recriminations

The first focused on immigration. “An extraordinary manna!”, “Called the boss of a head hunter cabinet. The Ethic Circle suggested a “Green Card”, as in the United States, which would regularize foreigners the time of their employment contract. “We are obliged to hire up to 20% of people who sometimes have false papers in some sectors,” said his manager, Sophie de Menthon. No, answered Marine Le Pen, “we will send them back and they will ask the authorization to return”. Second apple of contention: retirement at age 60, one of the main proposals of Marine Le Pen, which has attracted the recriminations of the assistance.

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