The union on the left arouses violent criticism in the presidential camp. The last sting came, Friday June 14, from Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of Economy and Finance, for whom the program proposed by the “New Popular Front” is “the assurance of exit from the European Union ” by its refusal of “European budgetary discipline”.
The program “is a total madness”, “it is the assurance of downgrading, mass unemployment and exit from the European Union” because “this left alliance will refuse the austerity constraint of the stability pact”, he said. declared Bruno Le Maire on Franceinfo, adding: “This is the first time that a union of the left has turned its back on Europe.”
The program is also “guaranteed economic collapse”, with the proposal of a “SMIC of 1,600 euros net”, and will lead to “mass unemployment”, he judged.
The RN program “is not better”
The LFI, PS, environmentalist and communist leaders announced Thursday evening a joint “break” program, with a “declination for the first 100 days of the mandate”, at the end of four days of intense negotiations. However, “when I look at the extreme right, I see a program which is woven with lies, so it is not better”, reacted Bruno Le Maire.
“The VAT reductions which are proposed, […] on gasoline, on gas, on electricity and on food […] represent 24 billion euros in additional spending. This is exactly the equivalent of what we need to save in 2024 and what I plan to save to balance our budget,” he continued.
For the Minister of the Economy, “there is an extreme right bloc with its lies, particularly in economic and financial matters. There is an extreme left bloc with its follies and its economic delirium. And then there is has a central bloc which must improve its proposals” and “take into account the messages of concern and anger that have been expressed”.