Xavier Bertrand is definitely launching his campaign for the presidential election. After already a few clashes in front of the cameras with Emmanuel Macron, the ex-LR candidate attacked the government on Monday morning on France Info.
Less than seven months before the presidential election, he tackled a president who “did not have the courage” to reform pensions, and the reform of unemployment insurance which “made the pockets of the French in difficulty without offering them job “. As for the blocking of energy prices, “is it now that they are waking up, they take us for fools?” “, He launched, assuring that he would have” returned the money “. “It’s people like that, a president like that, who provoke anger,” he added, criticizing rulers “unable to put themselves in people’s shoes.”
He then addressed himself to “those who work and who do not succeed” or “who have a very small pension”, repeating his project of “work premium” so that there is “no longer an employee. full-time receiving less than 1,500 euros net per month ”. On pensions “at the end of this decade it will take two more years of work” to arrive “gradually at 64”, but “not for those who are worn out for work”, he assured. He also pleaded for a reform of unemployment insurance “more ambitious, oriented towards the return to employment”.
Do not give in to “pseudo-modernism”
Among other lines of his program, he advocated “reconsidering the texts reducing nuclear power to 50%” of production, in order to “keep our energy independence” and avoid “an explosion in the price of gas”, before vilifying the “Anarchic development of wind power” which is “in the process of massacring the landscapes”.
In societal matters, Xavier Bertrand has promised a “break” to “appease the country”. “I do not want to give in to pseudo-modernism,” he hammered. He also attacked the Gafam who “are making a lot of money”, before promising to “clean up” in the budget to “stop doing everything through debt”.
Finally, on the designation of the right-wing presidential candidate, scheduled for December 4, he felt that it was “very late to agree”, and assured that “it is the tradition of congresses” of have only one name submitted to activists.