Energy super-profits: for Bruno Retailleau, the “European contribution mechanism” is a “gas factory”

Tuesday, September 6, the president of the group Les Républicains (LR) in the Senate and candidate for the presidency of the party, Bruno Retailleauis the guest of “4 Truths” on France 2. He first opposes the idea of ​​taxing the super-profits of certain companies: “We have mechanisms, and we are not going, once again, to retax French companies.“ Bruno Retailleau considers that the European contribution mechanism, put forward on Monday 5 September by Emmanuel Macron, is a “Gaz factory”. “If we want electricity to be cheaper, it must be less rare”he adds.

Bruno Retailleau then returns to the National Council for Refoundation wanted by Emmanuel Macron, which is to be launched on Thursday, September 8: “I said from the start that it was a Macronian contraption, and that it was an instrument for circumventing Parliament.“ About his candidacy for the presidency of the party LRBruno Retailleau explain that it is a “responsibility issue”because this election is the one “last chance” after “three serious, successive failures”.