The national secretary of the PCF was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Tuesday June 20, 2023.
Fabien Roussel, deputy for the North, national secretary of the PCF was the guest of the 8:30 a.m. france infoTuesday June 20, 2023. Pensions, Elon Musk, public debt, RSA… He answers questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
COR report: “It has no value”
Despite the reform, the pension system will still be in deficit in 2030, according to the Pensions Orientation Council. This report “has no value from the moment it is based on projections that do not take into account the necessary evolution of wages that we need in the country”reacts Fabien Roussel. “The COR is based on a purely capitalist economic system”SO “it makes projections where there will be deficits”he explains.
Fabien Roussel recalls “the need to increase wages, create jobs in public services, reindustrialize the country”. According to him, the pension system “must be financed by salaries and employment”. We must “create enough wealth to retire earlier”he said.
Tesla: “Welcome Elon!”
Billionaire Elon Musk, boss of Tesla, is welcome in France explains Fabien Roussel: “Welcome Elon, Welcome to France, no problem!”he launched. “Me, tomorrow, President of the Republic, I will create all the conditions for a Tesla factory to come and settle in France in Hauts-de-France”, he said. Visiting France for the VivaTech summit, Elon Musk met Emmanuel Macron who is trying to convince him to set up his battery factory in France.
Fabien Roussel called on the President of the Republic to be “consistent”. On the one hand, “we are creating the conditions for Elon Musk to come and build a Tesla factory in France, but on the other hand, the Clio, the 208, the C3, the Captur, the Dacia Spring, all these French vehicles from Peugeot and Renault are produced abroad”, he regretted. Fabien Roussel would put pressure on French car manufacturers: “I welcome Tesla, I welcome Elon Musk, but at the same time I forbid Peugeot and Renault from continuing to relocate abroad”.
Reduction of public debt: “I am totally opposed to it”
Fabien Roussel “totally opposed” to the will of Bruno the Mayor to reduce the public debt in France: “He has a mental cramp, he has a part of the brain, in my opinion, which prevents him from thinking that we can increase the state budget”he quipped.
“We need to invest in schools, in health, in public transport, in the security and public tranquility of our citizens, in customs, to stop traffic. We need all these public services, therefore, public expenditure should not be reduced”he said.
Taxing the highways: Bruno Le Maire has a “little awakening”
Fabien Roussel salutes the “little dreamit” by Bruno Le Maire who is “studying the option” of a new tax for motorway concessionaires. “He is beginning to discover the principle of taxing dividends when they are really exaggerated”, he explained. “But taxing dividends will never have the same impact as renationalizing those highways.”
RSA reform: “It will create misery”
The reform of the RSA proposed by the government “will create great misery”, according to Fabien Roussel. The payment of the RSA will be conditional on the achievement of 15 to 20 hours of activities per week.
Fabien Roussel proposes “that there are no more beneficiaries of the RSA, because everyone will have a job with a real salary”. A job “which gives dignity, of which we are proud, which allows us to live, to raise our children, to go out to the restaurant, to go on vacation, which gives dignity”. “It’s not precarious work, it’s not work that takes us from destitution to poverty. It’s not precarious work, it’s not part-time work, it’s not is a job that allows you to live”he pointed out.
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