During his hearing on Thursday, Bruno Le Maire assured that the deficit of 6.1% was “the choice of the current government”.
“If all the measures that we had prepared (…) had been implemented without delay by the new government, coupled with the revenue measures on energy rents and on share buybacks with retroactive effect, they would have made it possible to contain the deficit for 2024 to 5.5% without tax increases,” assured the former tenant of Bercy.
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