One week before the second round, the candidate president announced the establishment of a food voucher, the amount of which is “under discussion”, intended to allow the most modest to have access to quality French food products, in the event of for re-election as President of the Republic on April 24.
After the energy check, the 2022 edition of which is currently being distributed, it is now with a food check that Emmanuel Macron intends to seduce the French in this period between the two rounds. This check, the principle of which is “arbitrated” but whose configuration and technical details are still under discussion, will be implemented “immediately after the election” if Emmanuel Macron wins, assured the Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie this Sunday on France 3.
8 million malnourished people in France
“The idea is to say that today you have nearly 8 million of our fellow citizens who have difficulty in having access to local productions, to quality productions, to our French productions in reality, and therefore we must give them a boost to help them acquire this, ”explained the minister.
“This is the right answer, the right answer will never be to say it is the farmers who will pay for the purchasing power of the French,” he said, when asked about a possible challenge to the Egalim law. aimed at protecting farmers’ income.
The creation of this sustainable check had already been announced in mid-December 2020 by Emmanuel Macron before the Citizen’s Climate Convention. Its establishment was definitively adopted in the climate and resilience law voted in July 2021 in Parliament.