Executive seeks to land food check

The "food check" aimed at providing the most vulnerable with access to quality products turns into a puzzle for the majority.

Proposal of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate, the check received the presidential endorsement in December.

Emmanuel Macron had launched in front of the 150 citizens gathered at the Palais d'Iéna in Paris.

The government is looking for the right way to make it happen.

But Bercy brakes four irons, fearing

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Thus, the check will not be directly mentioned in the climate bill presented this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, which causes the mistrust of conventional members already scalded by the rewriting of several of their proposals.

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“We don't know if that requires a legislative vehicle.

There are plenty of ways to do it, we are in the process of analyzing them, ”we

slip to Matignon while the Prime Minister and Barbara Pompili mentioned the subject Tuesday during an interview.

The tracks of a government amendment or a decree are mentioned.

The deputy LREM Mounir Mahjoubi also makes it a priority, while the presidential movement demanded Monday evening in the executive office

including the famous check.

“I would have liked to see it in the Climate Bill.

In the parliamentary group, it is one of our wishes, we want to hang it up on the text ”

, indicates the deputy Jean-Charles Colas-Roy, in charge of questions of ecology within LREM.

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However, if “the food check” was indeed considered in the climate bill, it would be necessary to wait for the next amending finance law or the 2022 finance law, in the fall, to endow it with credits making it effective.