"What the president is asking us (...), is finally to continue to build a Marshall Plan for the middle classes in the coming months," Attal told France Inter radio.
"We have done a lot for the middle classes," he stressed, referring in particular to the abolition of the housing tax, a reduction of 5 billion euros in income tax or the tax exemption of overtime. "I think the president is asking us ... to continue this action with measures to make a better living from his work."
In addition to the possibility of additional measures for the purchasing power of the middle classes, this requires, according to Gabriel Attal, to act on the organization of work and to guarantee "better access to public services".
"In addition to the fiscal measures of purchasing power on which we must continue to advance for those who work, we must also move forward on other issues, the meaning and organization of work," he said.
"I think we can make France the country with the best public services in Europe. We put the means in terms of budget, "he said about the billions released for the hospital and education.
In his speech on Monday, Emmanuel Macron gave himself "a hundred days" to act "in the service of the France" and relaunch his second five-year term stuck in the crisis caused by his pension reform.
In addition to "a new pact of life at work", the president promised to tackle illegal immigration as well as social and tax fraud.
Gabriel Attal indicated that he would present "in the coming weeks" a plan to fight fraud "with strong measures", such as a doubling of the staff of the Judicial Investigation Service of Finance (SEJF).
Currently composed of 266 investigators according to the Customs website, the SEJF had participated in March in massive searches in banks in France suspected of tax fraud.
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