It is necessary, according to the president of the PS, “act on salaries”it is, he believes, “the only way to allow people who do not get out of it to pay their bills”.
Admittedly, the government has taken measures to affect prices by lowering excise duties or VAT, which, according to Paul Magnette, will lowerr “the average energy bill over a year of 400 euros”. There is also the extended social tariff and the energy checks on fuel oil. But for the president of the PS, For him, acting on prices, as we did for fuels recently by lowering excise duties, is not enough. The proof, in one week, the effect of the reduction in excise duties was wiped out by the increase in prices at the pump. Faced with soaring prices, for the president of the PS, “the only way to compensate is to increase wages”, via automatic indexation, to avoid a social crisis.