For his first hearing of this new five -year term, Bruno Le Maire has come up against the strong criticisms of oppositions.
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as a general rehearsal. Thursday, July 7 in the evening, for his first hearing before a largely revised finance committee, in the National Assembly, Bruno Le Maire had to face, for almost two hours, the firefighters fed by the different opposition groups from June legislative elections.
The Minister of the Economy presented with Gabriel Attal, the Minister Delegate Public Accounts, the amending finance bill which contains part of the 20 billion euros in measures to boost purchasing power. It will be examined the week of July 11 in committee, before a debate which promises to be arduous, from July 18 in the hemicycle.
Without delay, Eric Coquerel, successor to Eric Woerth (ex-Republicans, LR) as president of the commission, set the tone. “You know my remarks: before I made them at the back of the room, now I’m next to you,” launched the deputy La France Insoumise de Seine-Saint-Denis, elected to this post on June 30 at the end of a political battle with the national rally (RN).
Some compromises
His group, as well as the other member training courses of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union have recalled the points that are close to their hearts: minimum wage at 1,500 euros, taxation of large companies, restoration of solidarity tax on the fortune rather than suppression of production taxes, and price blocking.
“We expected much, we are still disappointed”, for his part launched the deputy RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy, recalling the request of his group to lower VAT on fuel, and arguing of the absence of massive measures for the middle classes. For her part, Véronique Louwagie, LR, defended the principle of capping the price of the liter of gasoline at 1.50 euros and challenged the cost of 50 billion euros which Bercy opposes him.
m. The mayor still tried to display some compromise points, especially on the subject of salary increases. “I join you on the minima of branches: it is not acceptable that there are as much as the minimum wage. It is desperate,” he replied to Mr. Coquerel in reference to an article text intended to encourage branch negotiations on this point.
The tenant of Bercy also reiterated the idea, already advanced at the end of the previous five-year term, to “enclose tax revenues from fossil fuels towards ecological transition”, even if it means making an exception to the budgetary principle of non-non Assignment of taxes.
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