The Zucman Tax is “a hoax” and “a booby trap”, says Laurent Wauquiez (LR)
LR does not support the Lecornu II governmentbut did not vote for its censure. What about the budget? Bruno Retailleau recently qualified d’«invotable» in the state? “It doesn’t make sense to say it like that.”retorted on RTL the boss of LR deputies in the Assembly Laurent Wauquiez. “We are fighting to correct it”. The Haute-Loire elected official summed up his position in a few words: “Our line is very simple, we are against all tax increases, for spending savings.” But Laurent Wauquiez assumes his line of non-censorship: “You don’t bring down a government lightly. We do not censor any way, we do not blackmail censorship.”
Laurent Wauquiez affirms it, he is “against the surtax on large businesses” voted this weekend by the government with the support of the socialists. “I am against increased taxes on SMEs, I am against the fact that we penalize the purchasing power of retirees. I am against the fact that we are targeting the purchasing power of those who work.” As for the Zucman tax, elected LR qualified it as “deception” et “a booby trap”. “That is to say, we put the Zucman tax on the table, we make the French believe that there is a magic solution consisting of taxing the richest. And meanwhile, we are not talking about everything else in this budget” and tax increases “on the middle classes”.
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Laurent Wauquiez also repeated his desire to unite the right “from Gérald Darmanin to Sarah Knafo” and to exclude the RN from such an alliance. “The RN is not right-wing, Marine Le Pen says it herself”he argued. The boss of the LR in the Assembly also mentioned the case of Nicolas Sarkozy, whose conditions of incarceration are debated. “I don’t understand this relentlessness”replied the elected LR. “I am deeply saddened to see a former head of state being held in prison when he has not even been able to exercise his right of appeal and is still presumed innocent.”
“There is no natural candidate on the right”finally affirmed Laurent Wauquiez on the thorny question of the LR candidate for the 2027 presidential election. “This is why we will have to organize a competition which will allow us to have a single person, a single candidate and then a team behind him.”
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