2023-09-15 20:06:01
Par Richard Flurin
Published 1 hour ago, Updated 1 hour ago
The government “watches over fuel prices like milk over fire”, according to the expression used at the start of the week by the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. AFP / KIN CHEUNG
THE CHEKING PROCESS – The president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, accuses the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, of ignoring the “jackpot” pocketed by the State in recent weeks thanks to fuel taxes. Is right ?
Two euros per liter. For several weeks, gas station signs have been displaying prices close to this symbolic threshold, which has already been exceeded in places. This symbol has escaped no one in the political class, where everyone remembers the movement of “yellow vests» which was formed in the fall of 2018 with lower prices. The government “watches over fuel prices like milk on fire“, according to the expression used at the beginning of the week by the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, who readily recognizes that this is a subject “extraordinarily sensitive».
The opposition is sounding the alarm, accusing the executive of not taking stock of the crisis. The president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, stood out for his commitment to this battle over fuel prices, not hesitating to come down hard on the boss of Bercy. “Two euros per liter is unbearable for the French. And I say to Mr. Mayor: you are reaping a jackpot at the moment. You reap a jackpot“, he proclaimed on CNews Thursday morning.
The violence of the indictment required a little explanation from the former candidate in the right-wing primary. “When oil increases, the state sees its tax revenues increase. In addition, (not only) VAT applies to oil, but then to the TICPE (domestic consumption tax on energy products, Editor’s note). It’s all a jackpot“, he argued. And to conclude by explicitly accusing “the state” of “get rich on the backs of the French».
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