"We could have had a text for gaining purchasing power, a text that even allows purchasing power to be preserved and there we have a text that makes it possible to limit the drop in purchasing power", estimated Olivier Faure on France 2.
The government presented Thursday in two texts (a draft amending budget and a purchasing power law) a burst of aid, amounting to "twenty billion euros" according to the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire.
Among the main measures are the early revaluations of 4% of retirement pensions and social benefits, the 3.5% increase in the salary of public officials or a food check of 100 euros, to which 50 euros per child will have to be added.
"Is it a protective text? No, it's a lesser loss text, which is better than nothing, but it's still not enough," reacted Olivier Faure.
"We can't be below the level of inflation," he said.
Asked about this point, Bruno Le Maire pleaded on Thursday for the announced increases in social benefits and the salary of civil servants to be added to others decided in January.
"We are going to debate, we are going to make sure that the government hears what the French are saying and that it is not just checks given once a year for 100 euros or 200 euros, but that work pays off," he said. -he explains.
While the government wants to encourage companies to share their profits, Olivier Faure criticizes the approach: "That's not the goal of the game. The state does not beg".
“The State says + there are rules of the game +, and when there are people who even profit from the crisis, who earn a lot of money, it is normal that it is first of all them who return a part of what they have won," he insisted.
The First Secretary assured that all PS deputies would vote on Monday for the motion of censure tabled by the new left alliance Nupes.
"We are all convinced that we are in opposition to a government which has not demonstrated its will to compromise".
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