2023-09-27 17:40:38
Published on September 27, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. Updated on September 27, 2023 at 5:40 p.m.
Lurches are not his nature, or at least not his image. And yet, Tuesday evening, Bruno Le Maire leaves the road for a moment. “Personally, I am very favorable” to postponing the ban on thermal strainers, he said in “Le Parisien”. “…And we are very unfavorable,” tweets MP Pierre Cazeneuve. This is in fact neither the position of the government nor that of the majority. The next morning, when presenting the budget, the minister reversed gear and resumed his trajectory.
Straight as an i, Bruno Le Maire wants to be the man of a clear line. At the wheel of his 4.4 – meaning a public deficit down to 4.4% of GDP – he holds on and resists. “All alone,” he said, wanting to restore public finances. And to defend the Macron doctrine of 2017. “My role is to act as a bulwark,” he continues, “if I had listened to the ministers, we would be at 5.2%.” [de déficit]. » The posture of the one who sacrifices himself for the country is not to displease him.
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