Paris (AFP)

Gérard Larcher, chairman of the Senate LR, criticized Wednesday the "vertical method" of the executive who planned to remove an exemption from social contributions of some seniors for the employment of home help before finally giving up.

The announcement of this measure had angered even the ranks of the majority. But Prime Minister Philippe finally announced that the government was abandoning it.

"It illustrates the method of the executive, the vertical method," lamented Mr. Larcher on Europe 1 Wednesday: "we decide one day to reduce the personalized housing assistance (APL) of 5 euros, we decide to deindex the pensions, we decide to weigh on pensioners a little more ... "

"This method, which is no longer supported by some of the French, contributes to feed fears, worries, anxieties, rejection, loss of confidence in the political decision," he regretted.

While recognizing that "this verticality did not begin either a few months ago", he felt that "today we must reverse it".

"You do not find it terrible that sometimes our government is led by technocrats from Bercy who throw things on the APL, on our seniors? We must break the power of Bercy, it kills politics," denounced MEP EELV Yannick Jadot on Cnews.

"No doubt Emmanuel Macron saw that there was a municipal election in six months, he chose to backtrack," said ironically on Radio Classical Jordan Bardella, MEP and vice president of the RN.

The government, which is looking for ways to save tax cuts promised by Emmanuel Macron, was considering reserving the social exemption granted to non-dependent elderly people when they employ home help only for dependent seniors or those in a state of retirement. disability.

But Edouard Philippe said Tuesday before the National Assembly have "asked the Minister of Labor to waive this measure", which should appear in the finance bill presented Friday.

Emmanuel Macron assumed Tuesday evening to have given the green light to the government to give up planing this aid, recognizing a "pragmatic" choice on a measure "to the negative impact".

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