The president of Les Républicains (LR) of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region accuses the government of having allowed “waste of public money” to accumulate and of acting “like a headless chicken”.
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In turn, Laurent Wauquiez reacts to France’s public deficit in 2023, at 5.5% of GDP, and targets the government. “I call it people who are looking for alibis to pick from the pockets of the French what they are not capable of doing in good management,” scathes the president of Les Républicains (LR) of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region on Wednesday March 27 in front of journalists including a journalist from franceinfo.
“We have abysmal deficits which are compromising the sovereignty of France and we have a government which, instead of reacting clearly, by finally proposing to correct things in relation to the waste of public money that it has left to accumulate, is thinking about how he can further increase taxes on the heads of the French, or possibly take from health insurance or local authorities”denounces Laurent Wauquiez.
“What concerns me today is the lamentable state of our country and to see the government reacting like a headless chicken”, he attacked again in Oullins, near Lyon, on the sidelines of a campaign trip by the head of the LR list to the Europeans, François-Xavier Bellamy. For him, the French are not fools. “I think they look at this and say, ‘Where has our country fallen?'”he assures.
