The amending finance bill intended to adopt a package of measures to support purchasing power will be presented to the Council of Ministers after the legislative elections on June 12 and 19, the government spokesperson announced on Wednesday.
This text is already worked on, prepared and will be present in the crowd of the legislative elections to be adopted very quickly, declared Gabriel Attal at the end of the Council of Ministers.
He thus denied press information on a possible presentation before the election, which would have allowed the majority to occupy the social ground during the campaign with this text.
This package of measures will include an extension of the price shield on gas and electricity prices until the end of 2022 as well as a more targeted and more targeted system than the 18-cent discount on fuel prices, was he detailed. The question of purchasing power, already at the heart of the presidential election, will remain a major theme during the legislative elections, carried in particular by Jean-Luc Mlenchon’s New Popular Union and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. Emmanuel Macron had announced during the presidential campaign a summer package for the first measures on purchasing power.
The rise in energy prices, induced in particular by the war in Ukraine, poses new dangers to the wallets of the French, underlined Mr. Attal. In addition to the measures on energy and fuel prices, Mr. Attal recalled that the Macron bonus, paid to employees for results, will be tripled, the charges for the self-employed reduced – i.e. 550 euros in earnings per year at the level of the minimum wage for a self-employed person- and the public service index point thawed.
Social benefits will also be revalued on July 1 without waiting for the usual calendar, as will pensions, in order to take inflation into account, he added. The Head of State wants to increase the minimum old age net 1,100 euros.
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The food vouchers promised by Emmanuel Macron to help the most modest to buy local, sustainable and even organic food products will also be launched this summer, the spokesperson said.