According to Bruno Le Maire, the delivery of 18 cents to the pump, in force until the end of July, is “effective”, but “more effective because more targeted” devices would be more relevant.
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Matignon had admitted it in March: the delivery of 18 cents to the pump was an emergency measure having to act quickly in the face of the outbreak of fuel prices. But we should think about “something lasting after July 31”. Bercy’s services therefore continued to work during the campaign to develop a new measure in favor of households most exposed to the rise in prices. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, confirmed it on Franceinfo, Monday April 25, the day after an election dominated by questions of purchasing power in a context of inflation: “We will maintain a device on fuel because prices at the pump continue to be very high. “
The discount of 18 euro cents, in force since the beginning of April, is “effective”, judges the minister, but “more effective because more targeted” systems would be more relevant, because the current system “benefits everything The world, whatever its level of income “or its constraints in terms of transport:” The 18 cents are not bad, but having a more significant and more targeted help, it seems to me that it is fairer and More efficient. “The objective being to be ready for the month of July, when the next government will present its connective budget. Even if everything is obviously likely to be questioned in the short term: “It may be that, within a few days, I no longer be Minister of Finance or more to the Government,” said Bruno Le Maire.
Whatever the configuration of the future government, and the identity of the next tenant of Bercy, a reflection will have to engage since the “delivery to the pump” must go out at the end of July, and the prices do not seem want to reflect. Above all, the executive has faced the same difficulty since the fall: find the measure targeting households both the most exposed to the rise in prices and identified as the most fragile. A technically complex equation, the administration does not have directly usable data which would identify the persons concerned. “We have done all the technical work to be able to cross data between your income level, the vehicle you have and the consumption of the vehicle, the number of kilometers you are browsing,” said Bruno Le Maire, Monday.
The attacked inflation check
Failure to be able to touch the desired population, the executive has multiplied in recent months of diverse gestures to cover a wide spectrum of needs and beneficiaries, at the risk of helping non -priority populations, and to “burn the Caisse “, depending on the right – the measures announced since the fall total almost 30 billion euros. The inflation check, this sum of 100 euros paid to 38 million households for a few months and baptized “average classes compensation” by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, was particularly attacked by the oppositions, the left deeming it poorly targeted, the right too expensive. The revaluation of the mileage scale in January, reserved for taxable households, was also widely criticized, the socialist deputy Valérie Rabault believing that 14.5 million people had been excluded.
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