The Minister of the Economy believes that the reform of unemployment insurance is necessary to achieve the objective of full employment. A declaration which comes after the announcement by Gabriel Attal of the suspension of the current reform, in the wake of the results of the first round of the legislative elections.
A clear opposition. Reacting to the suspension of the unemployment insurance reform decided by Gabriel Attal, Bruno Le Maire declared that he was “very circumspect on the pledges that we can give, on the positions of circumstances, on the accommodations, on the calculations “, at the microphone of France Inter this Monday morning.
According to the Minister of Economy and Finance, “if France wants full employment, if it wants its reindustrialization, if it wants to remain a leading economic power, we must move towards full employment and therefore we must continue reform of unemployment compensation.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Sunday evening, in the wake of the results of the first round of the legislative elections, that he was not going to publish the decree on this reform, which was to appear this Monday July 1.
“I am not going to change my beliefs in the space of 24 hours”
As a result, the unemployment insurance reform, criticized by the unions, is suspended. It was to reduce, from December 1, the maximum duration of compensation from 18 to 15 months for people aged under 57. You would also have to have worked eight months over the last 20 months to be compensated, compared to six months over the last 24 months currently.
“I told you several years ago that with a constant social model, we could not achieve full employment,” insisted Bruno Le Maire.
“I hope that we will reach full employment at 5% unemployment. I have always said that we must continue the reform of unemployment compensation. I am not going to change my beliefs in the space of 24 hours because that I would have to be able to convince so and so,” he added.
Call to vote “for a candidate from the social democratic camp”
The Minister of the Economy also considered that the National Rally was “a danger for our nation” and that it provided “none of the necessary answers to the questions of our compatriots”.
“The fight is for us to fight so that the National Rally does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly next Sunday,” he assured.
But Bruno Le Maire also considered that La France insoumise was “a danger for the nation”, evoking pell-mell “communitarianism”, “anti-Semitism” and “the violence” of the political movement.
“We do not choose one danger for the benefit of another,” he concluded, calling on voters to vote “for a candidate from the social-democratic camp, that is to say a representative of the Socialist Party, of the Communist Party or the Greens”, in constituencies where “Together” is not present in the second round.
