“Bardella is Macron made worse”, launched the “rebellious” Jean-Luc Mélenchon in an interview with 20 minutes, June 15. As the legislative elections approach, the economic program of the National Rally (RN) increasingly resembles that of the majority in place since 2017: lower production taxes, reduce social security contributions to increase wages, simplify standards, impose customs duties on photovoltaic panels manufactured outside the European Union, and even review the mandate of the European Central Bank to focus it on employment rather than inflation…
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Certain remarks made by the president of the RN during his press conference, Monday June 24, even seemed taken from the speeches of the Head of State or his Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. “We must make France an attractive and innovative land of production”repeated Jordan Bardella – a mantra of macronism since the economic crisis due to Covid-19 made visible the country’s dependencies on foreigners in several industrial sectors.
“I intend to put work at the heart of our economic ambition”, he also said, another marker of the outgoing majority. From ” EMERGENCIES “ which the RN plans to tackle this summer also include the standards, with “General states of simplification” and an “regulatory pause”in order to avoid “overtranspositions of European directives” – a project launched by Bruno Le Maire in the spring. The RN intends at the same time “continue the reduction of production taxes and (…) put in place a growth tax system for our businesses”in line with the supply-side policy held since 2017, consisting of reducing business and capital taxes to encourage wealth creation.
Without details and without insistence
“What we are calling into question is not the policy of supply but tax injustice”, explained the outgoing RN deputy for the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy, on the sidelines of the press conference on Monday, saying he was aligned with the policy pursued to reindustrialize the country for seven years. If the RN intends to ultimately repeal the 2023 pension reform and that of unemployment insurance, there is no question of reversing the tax cuts voted since 2017. The corporate tax rate, reduced from 33% in 2016 to 25% in 2022, is not intended to be increased.
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