Political reactions fuse after the announcement by Jean Castex of a discount on fuel at service stations.
The reactions are not expected after the announcement by Jean Castex in The Parisian a discount of 15 cents per liter at the pump. For Marine Le Pen, this measure is “derisory and not commensurate with the seriousness of the situation today and perhaps tomorrow“. “In reality, the drop of 15 cents per liter is not even up to the tax increases decided by Emmanuel Macron, Minister of the Economy and President of the Republic. On diesel, it was +19 cents“said the RN candidate for the presidential election, guest of BFMTV.
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The surge in fuel prices risks, according to her, “lead to business closures“and will encourage people”to stop working. Because they will see that it costs more to work than to touch the social minima“.
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Marine Le Pen proposes a reduction, “permanently», VAT from 20% to 5.5% on energy. The president of the National Rally believes that “energy is a basic necessity“. “Given the need, I add the cancellation of all the taxes decided by Emmanuel Macron“, she specifies. This would allow, according to her,to win (to the French) 44 cents (per liter) on diesel and 34 cents on gasoline“. A measure that Marine Le Pen promises, if she is elected President of the Republic next April, to put in place “immediately“. “This will probably be the first step I will take given the situation.“, she adds.
For her part, Valérie Pécresse judges the announcement of the electoral prime minister. “The state gives back the money, that’s what I asked for. The only question I ask myself is why April 1 and not now? April 1 is 10 days away from the election. The string is a little big“, she reacted on Europe 1. And to add: “I don’t know if these 15 cents represent exactly all the gains the state has made, maybe not all the gains, so I would have preferred the Prime Minister to tell us: I’m giving all the money back to the French“.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign manager, Manuel Bompard, “it’s better than no reduction at all, of course, but it’s very largely insufficient and it’s not the right method“. It’s necessary “move towards a price freeze measure, bring the price back to the price it was at before the start of the crisis around 1 euro 40 per litre, and involve gas and electricity distributors and fuel distributors“, he added on RMC.