Both Valérie Pécresse that the national rally and France unsuitable have criticized the measure for the purchasing power announced on Saturday, March 12 by Jean Castex.
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For them, the “string” is a little big. Grant 15 euros of discount on the price of the liter of gasoline, starting in April 1, is an election measure, have judged several representatives of the oppositions, Sunday, March 13, after The announcement made the day before by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, in the Parisian
“The state makes the money up the rise of gas, that’s what I asked, commented Valérie Pécresse in” Great appointment “of Europe 1, the echos and CNews . The only question I ask myself, c ‘Is why at the April April now since it is now that the French can no longer move? “And the candidate of Republicans to the presidentiality to answer herself : “The april, it is at ten days from the election.”
“I do not know if these 15 cents represent exactly the entire gains that the state has made, perhaps not all the gains, so I would have preferred that the Prime Minister tells us: I make all the ‘money to the French, “she added.
By announcing Saturday this discount to the pump for four months for all the French, Jean Castex assured that this was the case. The measure will cost about 2 billion euros to the state, and, according to the Prime Minister, “in the first half of the year 2022, and if prices remain at this level, fuel tax revenues would increase less than 2 billion euros “.
“I can not let the state say that the pockets is clear. It is clearly the opposite,” he insured, also insisting on “the 20 billion euros dedicated, since last October, to the protection of the purchasing power of the French “.
measurement” derisory “
“As by chance, it would be ten days of the first round of the presidential election, the government comes out of a vocational aid,” A Denounced on FranceInfo The spokesperson for the National Gathering (RN), Julien Odoul. According to him, the measure is also “derisory because 15 cents per liter, it does not even come back to the increases in taxes that have been decided by Emmanuel Macron, who were in the order of 19 cents per liter”.
“Obviously, it is not up to the seriousness of today’s situation and perhaps tomorrow. VAT is reduced on energy In general (…), from 20% to 5.5%, “ Have Marine Le Pen, the RN candidate at the Elysee, on BFM-TV . “The government is wearing a 15 cents something, it can appear as a provocation,” also felt the leader of the new anticapitalist party, Philippe Poutou, on the same chain.
For the campaign director of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (France unsuitable), Manuel Bompard, “It’s better than no reduction at all, of course, but it’s very much insufficient and it’s not The right method “. It is necessary to “go to a price blocking measure, to bring back the price at the price to which it was before the start of the crisis, around 1.40 euros per liter, and to use the gas and electricity distributors and fuel distributors “, Has it added to RMC