Intended for low-income households to allow them to buy local products, the food check promised by Emmanuel Macron during his campaign may ultimately turn into an inflation check.
It is a campaign promise by Emmanuel Macron which risks running aground on inflation. The food voucher, a boost provided by the President of the Republic for allow low-income households to have access to healthy productsorganic and local will not see the light of day, according to information reported by the Parisian. This project was originally announced in mid-December 2020 before the Citizens’ Climate Convention and then adopted in the Climate and Resilience law voted in July 2021 in Parliament.
Was this campaign promise doomed? It’s too complicated. We are unable to make a single check spend in such and such a brand or for such and such a product, blows in any case a member of the executive on a daily basis, who notes that Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, had for his part buried the project several years ago. month dd.
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Galloping inflation (+5.2% over one year in May) could profoundly modify this measure. A simpler food check paid in one go should indeed see the light of day intended for the most modest households. The outlines (amount and beneficiaries) will be presented on June 29, after the legislative elections (June 12-19) at the same time as a package of other measures in favor of purchasing power.
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Too bad for organic as long as the French can fill their shopping carts. Inevitably, on the side of the defenders of the first version of the project, we look gloomy. In discussions with the President of the Republic and the ministers, we clearly understood that the government wanted to move quickly by proposing a simple emergency measure, which responds to inflation, admits Dominique Charg, the president of Agricultural Cooperation, in the Parisian. Which does not correspond to what was imagined with the food voucher. That is to say, something structured, taken over time, target on foodwhich allows the most modest French people to find traditional distribution channels over the long term.