Marine Le Pen warned on Wednesday against the “cataclysmic consequences on the purchasing power of the Frenchof the sixth package of sanctions against Russia decided at the beginning of the week by Brussels, accusing the government of “lieon the country’s economic situation. “This decision will have cataclysmic consequences on the purchasing power of the French, it will contribute to worsening the price of oil, of course, and, incidentally, of gas and therefore of electricity.“, worried on France 2 the finalist of the last presidential.
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The leaders of the 27 EU countries reached an agreement on Monday that would see them cut their imports of Russian oil by some 90% by the end of the year in order to dry up funding for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. . “If we no longer buy oil from Vladimir Putin, others will buy it, it’s as simple as that. In reality, therefore, there were other measures that could be implemented with the effort of the producing countries in the world.“, denounced the deputy of Pas-de-Calais. “It is the choice of the sacrifice of the purchasing power of the French“, she judged, emphasizing, as she hammered it during the presidential election, that families who “can no longer make ends meet“.
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The MP for Pas-de-Calais, who met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Paris on Friday, shares with him the idea of taxing oil tankers. “I advise you not to believe a word of what Bruno Le Maire and for that matter the whole government sayson the economic situation of the country,because they have already lied in the past“. The Minister of the Economy said Wednesday on France Inter that he did not believe in a risk of recession. According to Marine Le Pen, when the government “says the price shield will cause electricity prices not to catch up, he’s lying, there will be a catch up of that probably in 2023“. “They lie until they can’t help but tell the terrible truth that is the consequence of their incompetence: we’re probably going to go into a recession.“, she insisted. But according to her, the increase in the Smic to 1500 euros advocated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Nupes to improve purchasing power is “unfair and threatening“, who “will only concern people who have the Smic“.
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