Two days before the first ballot, the presidential majority and the Nuts are mutually accused of promises that would weaken public finances.
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Who had believed it? A few days before the first round of the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, here is the serious budgetary becomes a political issue. Public finances, overshadowed by the concerns of the French around purchasing power and inflation in recent months, have invited themselves to the heart of the confrontation between the majority and the main opposition force, the new ecological popular union And social (Nuts), which the polls give the elbow to the first round of the legislative elections. For the past few days, the two camps have accused each other of budgetary irresponsibility, the presidential majority brandishing the threat of a red danger which would condemn the country to bankruptcy, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon refers the executive to his management of money audiences in the past five years.
“These people come to give lessons of rigor on how to organize finances”, annoyed Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Wednesday June 8 on France Inter, about Emmanuel Macron, by criticizing his record: “The debt is at its top” and “the deficit in foreign trade is the largest in history,” he said. “When I see that Mr. Mélenchon’s program, himself said, would cost 250 billion euros, how do we finance him separately by taxes and debt? The Minister of Labor – and former Minister of Budget – Olivier Dussopt on LCI, Thursday, June 9, anticipating the “ruin of public finances”.
As she had done with the extreme right during the presidential election, the majority applies to demonize her new opponent. The parallel is even assumed: “What the extreme right proposes as the far left is to return to everything that has allowed France to be stronger and to hold against past crises”, underlined Emmanuel Macron traveling Thursday. “With Mélenchon, this is the tax guillotine,” said the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal on Wednesday in an interview with the world. 2> “Previgious disaster”
The program of Emmanuel Macron “is not realistic from a budgetary point of view because there are a lot of new expenses, tax cuts and few reforms apart from pensions, analyzes François Ecalle, former member of The Court of Auditors and President of the Fipeco Information Site. But the amounts at stake are more reasonable than those of the Nuts, which provides for even more expenses, more taxes, more of a lot of things. ” >
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