Paris (AFP)

The left and the ecologists consider it not green enough, the right fears a time bomb for public finances: the oppositions denounced Thursday the "insufficiencies" of the stimulus plan presented by the government.

"This is the plan of the sapper Camember, this cartoon character in the nineteenth century", who each time dug a hole to fill the previous one, lamented the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure on franceinfo, questioned on the plan of 100 billion euros to revive growth after the coronavirus crisis which brought the French economy to a halt in the spring.

"You have a plan which we are told is supposed to prepare for the future and (...) at the same time we also make sure to help carbon companies, that there are no conditions set at lower taxes for companies, "noted the deputy for Seine-et-Marne, alluding to the government's desire to prepare France for 2030.

On the side of the ecologists, the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou blasted an "old-fashioned recovery plan" of which the 30 billion euros for ecology are only a "one-off and clearly insufficient investment".

For France rebellious, the deputy Adrien Quatennens denounced a plan favorable to the employers: "Behind the posturing, the new jackpot of the big employers without social and ecological compensation. The most fragile have only to stick their tongue!", A he tweeted.

On the side of the PCF, the national secretary Fabien Roussel regretted the social inadequacies of the plan: "We would have liked 0 dismissals, reduction of working time, plan for hiring and training in our public services and in industry, 750,000 permanent jobs for our young people ... "

On the right, LR boss Christian Jacob has ruled that "the government's stimulus plan is coming late".

"We should have done this before the summer to allow companies to anticipate more," he said.

The chairman of the National Assembly's finance committee, Eric Woerth (LR) feared that the plan would have serious consequences for public finances.

"How is the country going to pay? Is the recovery not an economic and social time bomb because we are getting into debt like crazy," he said on Sud Radio.

As for the National Rally, MEP Jérôme Rivière was not convinced by the will announced by the Prime Minister to relocate activities in sectors of the future.

"Not a word from Jean Castex on the relocations essential to the independence of France," he commented on Twitter.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France, accused Emmanuel Macron of seeking "to be re-elected" with the stimulus plan: "Its amount is too low and it sprinkles public money, instead of causing a shock of national production ", he regretted in a statement.

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