The Prime Minister summons her troops to “let” the negotiations with the social partners “go to the end”.
The debate returns to the table, and Elisabeth Borne hastens to dismiss it. In an interview given to echoes , Friday, November 18, the Prime Minister is delaying the idea, which is gaining ground again, of superprofit taxation. “All those who ask us (it) do not seem to realize that we are already doing it and that this represents 11 billion euros of resources in the finance bill“, Argues the tenant of Matignon, while the president of the MoDem group, Jean-Paul Mattei, says he is ready to rewrite his amendment.
And for good reason, the latter, first adopted by parliamentarians against the advice of the government, was finally withdrawn from the text devoted to the budget after the activation of article 49 paragraph 3. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Mayor had at the time expressed her strong disagreement, despite the more measured position of the Prime Minister, who affirmed at the end of the summer that shedid not close the door“.
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Today, the Matignon tenant wants to be firmer. “Let’s not interfere by voting an amendment now, it would be counterproductive, although I understand the impatience in the majorityshe says. Before listing the measures adopted by the government:We brought forward the Pacte law during the previous five-year period, then with the purchasing power bonus this summer and the simplification of profit-sharing for SMEs. And we asked the social partners to engage in consultation.“And to pray to her troops, whom she knows are split on this subject:”It is important to let this negotiation which has just started go through with it.»
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