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Macron bets on purchasing power to reconnect with the unions

4/14/2023, 5:48:24 PM


ANALYSIS – After the endless sequence on pension reform, inflation threatens to poison the government.

One crisis can hide another.

Overshadowed for more than three months by the endless sequence of pension reform, the issue of inflation in turn threatens to poison the executive.

An “

absolute emergency

” according to Marine Le Pen, who alerted Elisabeth Borne to this subject this week during her meeting with her at Matignon.

"

Food inflation

is combined with energy bills that are increasingly important and fuel bills that have not gone down

," said the finalist in the presidential election after her interview.

I therefore alerted the Prime Minister to the situation in the country and to the anger that the accelerated precariousness of some of our compatriots could cause

”.

A year ago, the former boss of the RN had made the question of purchasing power the central theme of her presidential campaign.

To end up qualifying for the second round.

While inflation reached a higher level in March than expected (5.7% against 5.6%)…

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