Bruno Retailleau lays down his conditions for voting on the texts on purchasing power

The texts will arrive from next week in the hemicycle of the Senate dominated by the right.

“We are going to reduce the taxation and social charges that weigh on overtime as much as possible and encourage the company to buy back RTT for employees who want to work more”, explains Mr. Retailleau, stressing that “these measures must be final ".

The deputies, who are continuing the examination of the amending budget on Saturday, have already given the green light to the possibility for companies to buy back the days of RTT from employees, a measure limited to 2022 and 2023, as well as an increase in the ceiling tax exemption for overtime for 2022 (from 5.000 to 7.500 euros).

Mr. Retailleau also proposes "flexibilities in terms of combining employment and retirement" and warns that his group will refuse "that the revaluation of the RSA be higher than that of the index point for civil servants".

The senator from Vendée still poses as a condition, for voting on the amending finance bill, the rapid launch of "a biometric Vitale card, which prevents fraud".

Regarding the price of fuel, Mr. Retailleau indicates that he will support "the agreement concluded between the government and the LR group in the Assembly". The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire agrees to an increase in state aid, currently at 18 cents per liter of fuel.

The boss of the LR senators finally considers that taxing the superprofits of companies, as requested in particular by the left, would be "demagogy". "Companies are not cash cows. The more they are taxed, the less they can invest and increase wages," he says.

Asked moreover about his possible candidacy for the presidency of the Les Républicains party, Mr. Retailleau declared that he did not favor this hypothesis.