“It will be an absolutely terrible bleeding,” said Eric Coquerel, president of the Assembly’s Finance Committee

The rebellious deputy estimates on Monday that this economy of 40 billion euros will “lead to the opposite of what the government is waiting for”.

While the Minister of the Economy Eric Lombard announced, Sunday April 13, that Bercy wanted to ask for a “Additional effort of 40 billion euros” To hold the objective of a deficit at 4.6%, Eric Coquerel, deputy LFI of Seine-Saint-Denis and president of the finance committee in the National Assembly, expressed his disagreement on Monday, April 14, on Franceinfo, believing that this policy was going to be “An absolutely terrible bleeding”.

“Last year it was already 30 billion […] of which 1.5 billion euros less in housing, each of which notes today that it is in crisis and that it is a social bomb at delay “recalls Eric Coquerel. “It’s also 2.3 billions less in the environmental budget when it would be necessary according to the specialists between 35 to 50 billions of euros in addition to environmental investments. And we could make a long list like that “estimates the deputy LFI.

This policy goes “Train the opposite of what the government is waiting for”says Eric Coquerl while the economic situation is in recession. “We can expect less recipes, […] That’s all that should not be done in the current period. “

Several avenues deserve to be studied, according to the president of the finance committee in the National Assembly, starting with “To wonder, to know if it is really the urgency to reduce deficits”. “At a time when the defense question is asked for example. Add the threats of Donald Trump, so there is to predict a drop in growth due to instability. Deficits are not the essential of the CAP that must be defined”assures the deputy.

According to the chairman of the finance committee, on the contrary, to seek on the side of the cause of the deficit, that is to say on the side of the “Lower revenue”. And add: “If we have to save money, this is where you have to go : Restore ISF, delete flat tax [impôt à taux unique]have a property tax. […] What costs the country too much is capital. “

Subjects that Eric Coquerel plans to tackle, on Tuesday, April 15, to the government at the public finance conference. “I don’t expect much from this high mass, I expect more parliamentary debate because we will have to make the government hear”explains the deputy, who does not spread the possibility of voting a motion of censorship with his parliamentary group.