The Insoumis will propose a “social emergency” law next week

Radical measures “to respond to the social emergency”, they say. The La France Insoumise group will submit a bill to the Assembly next week to deal with soaring prices due to inflation, LFI deputy Manuel Bompard said on Friday. “We have to measure the situation in which we are today, the prices which are soaring, wages which are too low. 85% of wages are below minimum wage [1.302,64 euros nets depuis le 1er mai 2022]that’s the reality, it’s poverty that is reaching peaks, there are 8 million people who need food aid to live, we have to respond to this situation, “he explained on France Info.

This bill will include two measures which were already in the program of Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the presidential election: “the blocking of prices on basic necessities, energy, fuel. And the increase of the minimum wage to 1,500 euros net”. The increase in the Smic will be financed “by setting up what has been called an inter-company Fund fund, which makes it possible to have the social security contributions due to this increase in the Smic taken care of by the large groups and not by the small businesses, craftsmen or traders, ”insisted the LFI deputy.

The ball to you, to me

Faced with the risk of political blockage, Emmanuel Macron, who lost his absolute majority in the legislative elections, asked the opposition parties on Wednesday to “say in complete transparency how far they are ready to go” to “build compromises”: “Enter into a coalition of government and action (or) commit to simply voting on certain texts, our budget”.

The parties began to respond on Thursday, returning the ball to the presidential camp, refusing the idea of ​​a coalition government and wishing to give Parliament its full role in examining texts “on a case-by-case basis”.