There are no small attentions with less than a month of a presidential election. Passing under the radar of a news dominated by the war in Ukraine, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, went to Rennes, Tuesday March 15, to sign the contract of plan between the State and the Brittany region, which ensures to the latter EUR 970 million in additional appropriations for the next five years. “The State has increased its commitments in favor of Brittany by 20%”did not fail to praise the head of government.
Three days before the start of the reserve period, which will prohibit ministers from traveling on Friday so as not to interfere with the presidential campaign, Mr. Castex had also slipped into his basket a convention for the transmission of regional languages. So many gestures seen locally as a desire to pamper a territory which offered its best scores to Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
Since he officially launched his race for re-election on March 4, the head of state has been sailing more than ever in the ambiguous waters of his status as “candidate president”. Does he and his government act in the name of the necessary management “until the last quarter of an hour” affairs of the country, or to arrogate the maximum number of votes in view of the ballot on April 10 and 24? The presentation by the Prime Minister on Wednesday of a “resilience plan” to contain the economic repercussions of the Ukrainian conflict only adds to this confusion, into which the opposition rushes to denounce “election gifts”.
Faced with soaring gasoline prices, Mr. Castex announced in particular that the discount provided at the pump of 15 cents per liter of fuel will be extended to vehicle natural gas (NGV) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). . This measure is to come into force on 1is avril. “Ten days before the election, the string is a little big”criticized the candidate of the Les Républicains (LR) party, Valérie Pécresse.
“It’s classic”
“Emmanuel Macron’s electoral campaign is the most expensive in the history of the Ve Republic. It is expensive in terms of public spending, and therefore taxes and debt for the future,” underlines the president of the LR group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau. His socialist counterpart, Patrick Kanner, dresses for his part the Head of State in “Santa Claus before time” who would have “turned into a champion of the premium to buy social peace”. The elected amalgamates in passing the decisions of the President of the Republic – who has introduced an inflation allowance – with the promises of the candidate Macron, who wishes to triple the amount of the activity bonus in the event of re-election.
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