The leader of LREM deputies Aurore Bergé said she was open to “compromise“with the opposition on the purchasing power bill, but”not at any price», Sunday in the JDD . “It won’t be ”whatever it takes!”. If it’s 35 billion extra spending to freeze the price of gasoline, it would be absolute irresponsibility“, she believes.
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In an Assembly without an absolute majority for the Macronists, “yes, we need to have an absolute and permanent search for compromise. But we won’t do it at any price“, Underlines the president of the LREM group, now called Renaissance. Aurore Bergé talks about possible discussions with “the republican arch“, of which it excludes”the extreme right“RN and “far left» LFI.
After Bruno Le Maire the day before, the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal in turn mentioned on Saturday in Le Parisien avenues for negotiation to complete this bill, for example on the “overtime tax exemption“, likely to please LR. “In the previous five-year period, we partially restored tax exemption for overtime. Some elected officials would like to go even further, we can think about it. This is consistent with our wish that work pays morehe says. “The purchasing power package also provides for workers’ fuel allowance which could go up to 300 euros for the lowest wages. The parliamentarians would like more French people to be eligible, it is also a track, in particular in favor of the middle classes“Adds the 33-year-old minister.
The deputies examine this bill ofemergency measures for purchasing powerfrom Monday in committee. He is expected in the hemicycle the following Monday, July 18. Among the main measures of this text are the early revaluations of 4% of retirement pensions and social benefits, the 3.5% increase in the salary of public officials, a food check of 100 euros, to which it will be necessary to add 50 euros per child. There is also the extension of the fuel discount from 15 to 18 cents and the tariff shield on energy, the abolition of the fee or the tripling of the Macron bonus (exceptional purchasing power bonus, tax-exempt and desocialized) .