Paris (AFP)

EELV boss Julien Bayou pleaded Monday to redistribute the "tax pot" linked to the rise in prices at the pump via an additional energy check defended by the EELV presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, by giving priority to households "the more vulnerable ".

While the government is considering the establishment of a device to deal with soaring fuel prices, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said Monday his preference for a "fuel check".

Julien Bayou considered him on Sud Radio that a reduction in fuel taxes would be "a very bad idea" because it would concern "everyone", wealthy households as well as modest, which does not allow "to concentrate the effort on people who need it "financially.

Calling to "aim broad", up to "15 million families", the national secretary of EELV has thus defended the energy checks of 400 euros for the most modest households and of 100 euros for the middle classes proposed by Yannick Jadot Sunday.

It is "a cyclical measure", which uses the "receipts" generated by the rise in prices, "a kind of tax pot", explained Mr. Bayou.

Structurally, we must "then organize the least dependence on the car" and the renovation of housing to reduce the energy bill of households.

Sandrine Rousseau, head of the political committee in Mr. Jadot's campaign, also defended "emergency measures" with these additional checks, but also the need to "tax" and "put pressure on companies, Total, Engie, who make considerable profits ".

"At some point these companies must participate in the solidarity effort vis-à-vis people who cannot get by today," she said on BFMTV and RMC.

Contrary to calls to lower taxes on fuel prices, she defended an increase over the next five-year term, to fight against dependence on fossil fuels, and the need for "a massive investment plan so that we less dependent on gasoline "with help for the most disadvantaged.

On the left, the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure on the contrary pleaded on LCI for "a temporary reduction in taxes" on the prices at the pump, "because it is simple and fast".

The energy check, it is a device "too small, too narrow", which only benefits "5 million people".

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