The Socialists took advantage of the summer to prepare an “contractor.” Initially, everything was revealed on September 9, but the possibility of mobilization on September 10 and the first consultations organized by the Government came to shake the agenda. Socialists plan to present their alternative measures this week, during their summer universities in Blois.
Objective: show François Bayrou that, this time, simple concessions will not be enough.
“It cannot serve as a negotiation base since nothing hurts us,” adds another.
Savings in the middle of the reduction
For the socialists, the claimed efforts are too large and can weigh on consumption and employment. They do not exclude reducing these savings in half. The cursor has not yet been arrested definitely, but they will offer between 20 and 30 billion euros in savings, instead of the more than 43 billion planned.
Socialists also dispute the distribution of effort, which weighs too much in employees and modest homes. Out of the question of eliminating two vacations. There is no doubt to establish a white year. Two measures that already represent more than 11 billion euros in savings.
6 billion euros in savings on the security budget
In return, they want to put the richest to use with a measure of Zucman’s tax, which is supposed to bring 15 billion euros.
They will also offer a new stroke on the exemptions of contributions to companies, with the key of the order of 3 billion euros in savings. Between this measure and a fall in health expenses that do not consider essential, they identified 6 billion euros in savings only in the Social Security budget.
Is the government ready to modify both its initial copy? The socialists say they had no appointments with the executive this summer. “These alternative measures show that the door is not closed, but on the condition that the government completely reviews its copy,” warns a PS deputy.
Source: BFM TV
