In recent days, the left has chained controversy with accusations of violence against Adrien Quatennens and Julien Bayou. How is the Nupes trying to bounce back? Olivier Faure, the boss of the PS, plays his part. Renaud Dély’s political editorial.
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The Nupes presented, Wednesday, September 21, a bill to tax the superprofits of large companies. A way for the left to reunite? The boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, had launched the idea at the end of August.
The initiative is timely after the cases of violence against women targeting Adrien Quatennens and Julien Bayou: the Nupes is going through strong turbulence, tremors which do not spare Jean-Luc Mélenchon, challenged for having supported his foal Adrien Quatennes. In this context, this proposal is therefore particularly welcome.
A total of 240 parliamentarians have already signed the bill. La Nupes is reconnecting with its fundamentals: waging iron both against large companies and against Emmanuel Macron. The text wants to introduce an exceptional tax on the record profits of groups with turnovers of more than 750 million euros.
Wanting to tax the superprofits of super-rich companies is not necessarily unpopular and it helps to drive a wedge into the majority. And the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne herself, is not necessarily hostile to the principle of temporary taxation.
The text must be validated by the Constitutional Council and the left is clearly in the minority in the Assembly. She wants to circumvent the parliament, hence this procedure of the shared initiative referendum which requires the support of 10% of the voters. This sets the bar high: it must bring together 4.8 million petitioners in nine months.
With this operation, Olivier Faure is pursuing another, more personal objective, he is betting that Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be a candidate in 2027 and that his Insoumis disciples, orphans and divided, could well end up turning to him.