“The account is not there”, judged Friday the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure about the bill on the purchasing power which is, according to him, rather a text of “lesser loss”.
“We could have had a text for gaining purchasing power, a very text which makes it possible to preserve purchasing power and there we have a text which makes it possible to limit the drop in purchasing power”, estimated Olivier Faure on France 2.
The government presented Thursday in two texts (a draft amending budget and a purchasing power law) a burst of aid, amounting to “twenty billion euros” according to the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire.
Among the main measures are the early revaluations of 4% of retirement pensions and social benefits, the 3.5% increase in the salary of public officials or a food check of 100 euros, to which 50 euros per child will have to be added.
“Is it a protective text? no, it’s a text with less loss, which is better than nothing, but that’s still not enough, ”reacted Olivier Faure. “We cannot be below the level of inflation,” he said.
Asked about this point, Bruno Le Maire pleaded on Thursday for the announced increases in social benefits and the salary of civil servants to be added to others decided in January.
“We are going to debate, we are going to make sure that the government hears what the French are saying and that it is not just checks given once a year for 100 euros or 200 euros, but that work pays,” he said. -he explains.
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While the government wants to encourage companies to share their profits, Olivier Faure criticizes the approach: “That’s not the goal of the game. The State does not beg”.
“The state says there are rules of the gameand when there are people who even profit from the crisis, who earn a lot of money, it is normal that it is first of all them who return part of what they have earned, ”he said. insisted.
The First Secretary assured that all PS deputies would vote on Monday for the motion of censure tabled by the new left alliance Nupes. “We are all convinced that we are in opposition to a government which has not demonstrated its will to compromise”.