if Bruno Le Maire “hates the State, let him go to the private sector”, replies Alexis Corbière

“If he hates the State, let him do something else, let him go to the private sector”responded sharply Tuesday March 19 on franceinfo Alexis Corbière, deputy of La France insoumise of Seine-Saint-Denis, to the Minister of the Economy Bruno le Maire, who called on Sunday in an interview to Sunday Newspaper to put an end to it “the welfare state” to replace it with “the protective state”.

“He wants to weaken the State. What is the welfare state? It’s public services”, replied the LFI deputy. France’s public debt exceeded the 3,000 billion euro mark in 2023. Bruno Le Maire stated in the JDD that “free everything, for everyone, all the time, is untenable.” Alexis Corbière brushes aside this argument: “Nothing is free. We pay taxes, it’s public money.”

“The embodiment of ‘gyrouettism'”

The LFI deputy got angry with Bruno Le Maire who, according to him, “lived on Republic cheese for years”. He invites him to abandon his responsibilities: “That’s 20 years that he has been a minister or government advisor. If he hates the State, let him do something else, let him go to the private sector.”
Alexis Corbière denounces “these people who squat in ministerial offices, who are even ministers and who spend their time wanting to weaken the State”. According to him, Bruno Le Maire “is a minister in all situations” And “is the embodiment of ‘girouettism’ in politics”.

The Minister of the Economy is releasing a new book on Wednesday, “La voix française”, published by Flammarion, which he describes as a “profession of faith”. Some see it as a program book. “It’s 2027 which begins. We will have among Macron’s successors a whole series of caricatured characters. Darmanin will say ‘long live the police!’ The Mayor will say ‘the State is enough’“, quipped Alexis Corbière. Bruno Le Maire affirmed on France Inter on Monday that he was not a candidate for the 2027 presidential election.