“
There were no profiteers from inflation in the food
sector,” said Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Saturday in an interview with the newspaper
Le Parisien
, which seems to confirm the conclusions of several parliamentary reports.
In a context where the inflation rate for food products approached 12% over one year in October according to INSEE, "
I asked the General Inspectorate of Finance
to carry out a study
", declared to the daily the N.2 of the government.
“
The conclusion is clear: there were no inflation profiteers in the food sector.
Neither the farmers nor the distributors, nor the agri-food industry have taken excessive remuneration in the process,
” he added.
At the end of June, the chairman of the strategic committee for E.Leclerc stores, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, deplored that "
half of the increases requested
" by manufacturers in the context of renegotiations on the price of foodstuffs intended to be sold by supermarkets were "
not transparent
" and were "
suspicious
".
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A senatorial report published on July 19, however, had concluded that with the exception of a few “
specific cases
” there was no “
generalized phenomenon of abusive increases
”.
A few days later, a report by the deputies Aurélie Trouvé (La France insoumise) and Xavier Albertini (Horizons) had not made it possible to detect “
systemic abusive behavior on the part of manufacturers or distributors
”.
Still on the question of purchasing power, Bruno Le Maire proposed on Saturday to organize a "
convention on the sharing of value
" in early 2023, within the Renaissance party.
Even if he reaffirms in the interview his preference for the "
employee dividend
", the Minister of the Economy suggests associating within this convention "
economists, business leaders, employees and opposition groups to identify new ideas in addition to the work undertaken with the social partners
”.
