Bruno Le Maire has repeated it several times since his reappointment as head of the Ministry of the Economy, the priority of Elisabeth Borne and her government is the purchasing power of the French. A bill is expected in the coming weeks, including the indexation of pensions to inflation for a revised payment from August 9th.
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Economists’ forecasts vary, ranging from +5% to +10%. On franceinfo Thursday May 26, 2022, Patrick Mignola, deputy for Savoie and president of the Modem and Related Democrats group in the National Assembly, assures him: the cursor must be placed “exactly at the level of inflation. This is the position that the MoDem group will defend in the National Assembly“.
An indexation, according to the deputy, which must be identical for pensions, the public service but also the social minima. “It’s even more important for those who have very low incomes, the most fragile in our society, those who sometimes we don’t see, you have to know how to talk about it for them.“, insists Patrick Mignola, who specifies that it is useless to introduce a bill now”May 26, otherwise August 9, the rate will not be correct“.
“The President of the Republic was very clear during the presidential campaign, he said: indexation of pensions on inflation”
Patrick Mignola, president of the Modem group at the National Assemblyon franceinfo
According to the deputy of Savoie, “society must adjust to inflation“.”This applies to price review clauses in public contracts, it applies to the world of construction but also to negotiations branch by branch for employees in the private sector.“, he concluded.