For Michel-Édouard Leclerc, the fight against inflation is not a priority shared by all. Invited on CNews / Europe 1 this Monday morning, the boss of the strategic committee of the E.Leclerc centers estimated that there were “people who are for inflation, it is the unspoken of all this debate”. “There is a financial community that owns company shares, which needs this inflation, which wants this inflation”, he developed, because the rise in prices “gives the illusion of increasing the figure of business”.
According to the famous distributor, inflation is also “maintained, desired by many economists”. “Look at the debates at the European Central Bank, at the IMF, now we are starting to say 3-4% would be good. But 3-4% when you borrow is huge for a French household, 3-4% permanently on the household budget is huge!”, he thundered. “There are financiers who are for inflation, so it is a political fight,” he added. “It’s a political problem,” he insisted, affirming that inflation must “become a national priority.”
“We are going to accelerate the fight against inflation,” Bruno Le Maire rightly said on Sunday on BFMTV, a few days after announcing three measures intended to “definitively break the spiral of prices” on the shelves, including lowering prices or blocking prices for 5,000 products and the progress of commercial negotiations between distributors and manufacturers. “Our compatriots must say to themselves next week “it will stop blazing”” on their receipts, the Minister of the Economy said on Sunday.
