Recovery plan or campaign plan?

This Tuesday Emmanuel Macron presented the “France 2030” plan.

A 30 billion euro project intended to develop industrial competitiveness.

But for the opposition, the objective of this plan is quite different and is more in line with an electoral approach in the run-up to the presidential elections.

From the end of the speech of the Head of State, several personalities thus castigated together a "propaganda" of a candidate still not declared for his re-election, to "restore his electoral blazon".

The president of the RN Marine Le Pen, candidate for the Elysee Palace, mocked on Twitter "the" whatever the cost, I want to be reelected! "".

On the left, the Insoumis candidate for the Elysée Jean-Luc Mélenchon blasted a “new day of macronist propaganda”.

A few months from the end of his mandate, the outgoing president commits French money to restore his electoral image with promises which only bind his successor.

It's the "whatever the cost, I want to be re-elected!"

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- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) October 12, 2021

Costly investments that follow one another

Post-Covid recovery plan of 100 billion euros in 2020 after “whatever the cost”, then more recently exceptional investments for Marseille, 2022 finance bill with numerous expenses and now “France 2030” plan: Emmanuel Macron has chained the big announcements in recent weeks and aligns expensive investments.

The 30 billion euro plan presented on Tuesday aims to produce more by 2030 and make France a “great nation of innovation”.

"We must increase the capacity of the French economy to grow through innovation", in particular to continue to "finance our social model", pleaded the President of the Republic.

3 billion for health

Some 8 billion will go to the energy sector, in particular to become a “green hydrogen leader” by 2030;

4 billion will be invested to develop new means of transport;

2 billion in “breakthrough” innovations in agriculture;

3 billion in the field of health, and nearly 6 billion to "double" electronic production in France within nine years.

"The recovery, which is cyclical, must be long-term", argued Prime Minister Jean Castex to the National Assembly, adding that "there is no question of stopping there: we must continue the logic of transformation and modernization at work since 2017 ”.

Stanislas Guerini, boss of LREM, also applauded a "political choice".

"It's a budget of pranks and jokes"

But the opposition, on the right and on the left, has been denouncing for several weeks the policy of the “candidate Macron” and his “spending euphoria” in the pre-election period. On the 2022 budget, the incomplete copy of the bill led to mockery from the opposition last week: “It's a budget of pranks and jokes. (…) I've never seen that, ”quipped Charles de Courson (Freedom and Territories), who at 69 is entering his 29th fiscal year in the National Assembly.

Tuesday, Senator LR Valérie Boyer denounced the strategy of the President of the Republic who, according to her, "speaks of France 2030 to avoid speaking of France 2014-2021".

The spokesperson for the Socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, himself, judged that the envelope announced Tuesday, "it is obviously too little (and it comes) quite late", while the number one of EELV Julien Bayou estimated that the announcements "finally summarize the failures and renouncements" of the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron.

Communist candidate Fabien Roussel estimated that "by financing his project by borrowing rather than taxing the super profits of the CAC40, Emmanuel Macron is promoting capitalism and competition".

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