Budget: Government inflation indemnity strongly criticized by oppositions

The rectifying finance bill, which includes purchasing power measures, was adopted Wednesday, 10 November by the National Assembly.

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less than twenty-four hours after the television speech of Emmanuel Macron, the first reading examination at the National Assembly of the draft amended finance law (PLFR) 2021, Wednesday 10 November, was the opportunity for oppositions to criticize the economic policy of the government for this end of five years. The PLFF, which contains in particular the purchasing power measures announced in recent weeks by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex – like the “Energy Check” and the inflation allowance -, was the subject of a preliminary motion of rejection filed by the Communist Group, which was not adopted.

annoyed by a jostled budget calendar, including the addition to the bill of finance 2022, by amendments, from the France 2030 investment plan and the young engagement contract, for a total of more than 4 billion d The deputies emphasized the precipitation and the gaps of the texts concerned. Several members of the freedom group and territories, led by Charles de Courson, thus filed an amendment of “budget humor”. Objective: To rename the first part of the PLFF, supposed to ensure financial balance, in “financial imbalance”, “in order to give a more realistic vision of the degraded state of public finances,” they explained.

But it is the inflation allowance of 100 euros for people earning less than 2,000 euros net monthly, of which 3.6 billion euros on 3.8 billion are included in the amending budget, which focused on criticism . In an increasingly empty hemicycle as the evening advanced, many deputies having joined their constituencies for the ceremonies of 11-November scheduled, right and left have castigated the modalities of the device and its principle, five months of the presidential election. “It is the policy of the checkbook,” said Véronique Louwagie (the Republicans, LR), while Charles de Courson regretted “an election bonus”. “You would have been able to slide these checks in the ballot envelopes,” said the member (France unsuitable, LFI) Sabine Rubin.

“Situations at the limit of the absurd”

The individual character of the device has been denounced. Under the latter, “a single mother with three children who won 2,100 euros per month will not benefit, on the contrary of a couple where the woman wins 1,500 euros and the husband, senior executive, more than 5 000 euros “, detailed Charles de Courson. “By not taking into account the home, one risks going out the single-parent families,” the communist Alain Bruneel abounded.

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