Burial of the eco-tax: Royal without qualms, malaise PS – Le Figaro

Burial of the eco-tax: Royal without qualms, malaise PS – Le Figaro

SCAN THE POLICY – Minister of Ecology defends suspension of the environmental tax and its project of contribution of motorway companies. On the left, the discomfort is palpable, until the government.

She has no regrets. Despite strong protests against the announcement Thursday of the indefinite suspension of the environmental tax, Segolene Royal takes. Asked Friday morning on BFM-TV, the Minister of Ecology expressed “no qualms” . Denouncing an “unrealistic” and “impractical” system to ensure that “the application of the environmental tax would destroy more jobs among truck drivers than it would create.”

In the Assembly, a little later in the morning, Segolene Royal has worked to defend his tax proposal motorway companies before MPs met to review the bill energy transition . “We saw the motorway companies since inception $ 15 billion to shareholders, there there as something wrong” and “there is no reason why we do not put flat this problem “Has she assured, in a tense atmosphere.

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the proposed substitution is far from unanimous, even within the government. From Washington, Thursday, Michel Sapin, has expressed serious reservations: “The motorway companies have benefited (…) extremely lucrative contracts, they provide that if there is an increase in taxation (…) it must be compensated. And the compensation is to increase the toll, is that it’s a good solution, including trucks? I’m not absolutely sure “tempered the Minister of Finance.

In the ranks of the Socialist Party, even the unconditional support of the government expressed some discomfort . “I was surprised by the decision,” , admitted on LCI Bruno Le Roux, President of the Socialist Group in the Assembly. “I do not wish there was capitulation and that it is the taxpayer who pays all transport infrastructure,” he says. The boss of PS deputies announced that gather in the day the socialists to “see how we will take action,” without giving further details.