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By alone announcing an indexation of pensions on “half of inflation” from January 1, the boss of the Republican Right deputies in the Assembly has wreaked havoc in the “common base” of Michel Barnier.
It's no longer a winning deal, it's a promotional tour. After being invited, Monday evening, to the 8 p.m. news on TF1 to announce the compromise reached with the government to revalue all pensions up to half of inflation on January 1 and to finalize “an anti-inflation shield” for small pensions on July 1, Laurent Wauquiez gave a ladle of them this Tuesday, November 12, during questions to the government. Same player is still playing: the boss of the Republican Right (DR) group also asked, in the hemicycle, for a “meeting clause” early 2025 on the electricity tax. The ultimate little pleasure, his operation upset the Macronists, exasperated to see LR thus pampered by the Prime Minister when they consider themselves badly treated in the laborious budgetary negotiations: “It can’t be the one LR show” or “why Wauquiez made the announcement? He is not Minister of the Economy. squealed the deputies Together for the Republic (EPR) after emptying their bags in the morning in a group meeting.
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