The “food voucher”, measure of the candidate Emmanuel Macron intended to allow the most modest to have access to quality French food products, will be put in place “immediately after the election” in the event of reappointment of the outgoing president, assured Sunday Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture and close to Emmanuel Macron.
This check whose “principle is arbitrated”, but whose configuration and technical details are still under discussion, will be implemented “immediately after the election, during the year 2022”, affirmed Julien Denormandie, guest of the program Sunday in politics on France 3, one week before the second round of the presidential election.
The food voucher adopted in the climate and resilience law voted in July 2021
“The idea is to say (that) today you have nearly 8 million of our fellow citizens who are struggling to have access to local productions, to quality productions, to our French productions in reality and therefore it must give them a boost to help them acquire this,” said Julien Denormandie, one of the founders of the Republic on the move.
“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. , which aims to protect farmers’ income.
The creation of this sustainable food voucher, which is slow to be put in place, was 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.