2023-08-24 16:10:16
Officially, don’t talk to him about back to school: Bruno Le Maire continued to work all summer. It prevents. At the end of three weeks of vacation in the Alps then in his house in the Basque Country, the trip of the Minister of the Economy to the heights of Lake Annecy (Haute-Savoie), Thursday August 24, forty-eight hours only after his return to his Paris offices, took on the appearance of a speech on the method.
The former Les Républicains, who is starting his seventh year at Bercy, had chosen for his first expression after the summer an unprecedented format outside the walls: a visit to the Fournier family business in Thônes (Haute-Savoie), owner of the kitchen furniture brands Mobalpa and Hygena, then a discourse centered on “back-to-school economic priorities”. Difficult, however, not to see it as a first attempt to position itself on the starting line for the 2027 election, three days before the speech of another heavyweight of the government, the Minister of l inside, Gérald Darmanin, who must speak, Sunday August 27, from his stronghold of Tourcoing (North), on the theme of the working classes. Bruno Le Maire assures in private of his good understanding with his former budget minister, whose initiative he praises. While slipping to his interlocutors that at no time is there any question of the majority abandoning the popular categories.
In the vast hangar of the Alex factory (Haute-Savoie), where the leaders of Fournier will invest 93 million euros, Bruno Le Maire has thus offered himself a staging worthy of a candidate in the campaign. Platform, walkabout… For forty-five minutes, he defended the government’s policy and recalled his vision of the country for the coming years in front of an audience of more than 350 people, business leaders, employees, elected officials and apprentices from industry and catering, and in the presence of his counterpart in charge of industry, Roland Lescure.
“Fight against inflation”
“Our economic results are concrete. Since 2017, we have managed to create 2 million jobs. We are approaching full employment.welcomed the Minister, calling for an end to the “pessimism” and the “national denigration”. As tax increase projects multiply as part of the preparation of the 2024 budget, he denounced “the little music that suggests that we could change policy, give up our policy of supply”and castigated “corporate tax bludgeoning, which generally leads to household tax bludgeoning. »
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