Laura Laplaud 8:26 a.m., May 18, 2022

It has become one of the main concerns of the French: their purchasing power.

Guest of Europe Morning Wednesday, the national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, called on the new Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to increase wages, the Smic as well as pensions.

Faced with inflation which reached 4.8% over one year in April according to INSEE, more and more French people find themselves forced to make choices.

Buy less clothes, fight back on the first prices in supermarkets, eliminate leisure... "Never have the prices been so high!"

launched the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) Fabien Roussel on Europe 1. "I am addressing the Prime Minister, we must not wait until the end of the legislative elections to increase salaries, the minimum wage and pensions, I challenges him with a letter that I will make public!"

he exclaimed.

Recently appointed to Matignon, Élisabeth Borne would be a Prime Minister "marked by her liberal policies which do a lot of harm to families", launched the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) Fabien Roussel on Europe 1. "If this Prime Minister had a hand of velvet, it would be known”, he continued.

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