After a year at the Ministry of Industry and Energy, Marc Ferracci will return to the chamber of the National Assembly as a deputy, this Tuesday, October 14, during Sébastien Lecornu’s general policy declaration. “My concern is that we do not undo the supply policy” carried out in recent years, Marc Ferracci explained this Monday on the set of BFM Business.
This trained economist contributed to Emmanuel Macron’s program in 2017 with the new Nobel Prize in Economics Philippe Aghion. Preferring to “focus on other issues”, the former minister expressed his reluctance to suspend the pension reform, demanded by the Socialist Party last week.
The latter also fears that the suspension of the pension reform will send “a negative signal” to financial markets and investors. The former Minister of Industry advocates, instead, reaching compromises with the opposition through measures to support purchasing power, “lowering the CSG for example”, as proposed by the socialist deputies.
“I insist on purchasing power measures. Why don’t we do our best on this issue?” he suggested, while saying he was open to the next budget including “fiscal justice” measures.
Defense of renewables
The former Energy Minister also defended support for renewable energies, questioned in recent months by Les Républicains and the National Rally, while the multiannual energy program (PPE) has not yet been published. In this sense, Marc Ferracci believes that “Marine Le Pen says anything.”
“The EPP is absolutely necessary to (…) get out of dependence on gas and oil, which costs us 70 billion euros a year in our trade balance and which puts us at the mercy of now hostile countries, first of all Russia,” he continued.
Source: BFM TV
