“
A fairly frank and responsible exchange
”.
These are the words chosen by Olivier Marleix to describe his first meeting with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, Tuesday morning at Matignon.
After more than an hour of interview, which was associated with the deputy LR of Orne Véronique Louwagie, candidate for the presidency of the Finance Committee, the president of the LR group in the Assembly exposed to Figaro the main lines of their exchange.
The political leaders began by evoking the texts of the extraordinary transfer.
Purchasing power, amending finance bill, health measures linked to Covid... "
We have clearly said that we could not accept coercive measures for the French
," said Olivier Marleix, while there is concern concerning a possible relaunch of the Sanitary Pass.
Regarding the measures on purchasing power, President LR specified that he wanted to work in close collaboration with the Senate to propose measures, insisting in particular on the need to decorrelate the prices of electricity and gas, “
artificially bound by the European Union,
" he said.
When discussing the main lines of future thinking, Olivier Marleix defended the return to work of RSA recipients.
“
We have very concrete proposals to make on this subject and this can be an opportunity to demonstrate a new listening to the opposition
”, estimated the deputy for Eure-et-Loir.
Finally, this first exchange was an opportunity for the new leader of the LR deputies to recall that his group was part of an opposition ready to support the measures that it deems common sense and determined to "
move the country forward
".
But he also underlined the seriousness of the economic situation in France and the risk of budgetary slippage if measures to restore balance were not taken.
As the right LR said regarding purchasing power, he considers it urgent to seek savings in the face of the scale of the challenges to be met.
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