A few days before the elections, the executive puts its promises on purchasing power.
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like an air of deja vu. Help inflation for the most modest, increase in retirement pensions, wage measures for hospital staff … a few days before the first round of the legislative election, Sunday June 12, and while the electoral dynamics of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPPES ) gives cold sweats to the government and the majority candidates, the more one day goes by without the executive drawing a measure supposed to “protect the purchasing power of the French”, as repeated by the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire.
A scenario close to that of the fall of 2021, when Xavier Bertrand accused Emmanuel Macron of campaigning with the checkbook of the French “, and that Valérie Pécresse deplored her propensity to” Cramer the Caisse “… Force, already, the Head of State chained budgetary promises – for the police, the farmers, the self -employed, the city of Marseille … – while being careful not to declare themselves candidate for his own re -election.
Six months later, the anathemas finished. The left alliance replaced the Republicans as the first opposition force in public debate, and the war in Ukraine has exploded inflation. The greater people is not disappearing to criticize government spending. But the method remains: in a very political staging of sound and stumbling ads, the executive is bssating of promises, often old, to deal with opponents who offer more massive developments – such as blocking prices or increases Smic. “There is an emergency for the government to occupy the land, even if, in terms of purchasing power, people are not satisfied with simple announcements but want to feel the effects on their budget,” analyzes Emmanuel Rivière, de The Kantar Public Institute.
an inventory that lengthens
The inventory of measures thus seems to be growing day by day, even when it comes to repetitions. In an interview with the regional daily press, Emmanuel Macron indicated, Friday, June 3, that the delivery of 18 cents to the pump in force since 1 er April would be extended in August – communication already made end of April. On June 7, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced an inflation check for the most modest, paid “at the start of the school year”, “at once, taking into account the number of children in the family”. In reality, it is an “emergency” transformation of the food check, the subject of an showdown for months between Bercy and the Ministry of Agriculture, because it is complex and expensive to implement.
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