Without directly questioning Emmanuel Macron’s choice, the Minister of the Economy suggested that he would not have acted in the same way.
“The dissolution is the decision of one man: the President of the Republic”, observed Bruno Le Maire this Sunday. A way of implicitly questioning Emmanuel Macron’s choice to dissolve the National Assembly. “It’s his decision, it’s his prerogative… I am Minister of the Economy and Finance”specified the tenant of Bercy interviewed in the show “Political questions” from France Inter, France Télévisions and The world. Thoughtful, the government number two also added: “What I see is that this decision has created – in our country, in the French people, everywhere – concern, incomprehension, sometimes anger. This is what I see in our voters”.
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If Bruno Le Maire does not stand for re-election in the early legislative elections, the minister will throw himself into campaigning body and soul for the presidential camp. Analyzing the economic programs of the New Popular Front and the National Rally, the government number two believes that “Both are a disaster for our economy”both will open “all the floodgates of public spending”. Taking for example the proposal of a return to retirement at 60, Bruno Le Maire estimated that this would lead to “ruin” of the economy, preventing “certainly” of “pay the pensions of small retirees”.
Bruno Le Maire thus called for “open your eyes to the programs” of the National Rally and the New Popular Front, which would, according to him, “both a disaster for our economy” And “lead directly to the impoverishment of all our compatriots”. Concerning the measures in favor of purchasing power announced Saturday by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, Bruno Le Maire estimated that “this is a great starting point” but “that we will obviously have to go much further”.
