Invited on France Inter this Saturday, September 3, Gabriel Attal promised to maintain the tariff shield in 2023. Contain the surge in energy prices. While Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne had announced a probable increase in electricity and gas prices from the start of 2023, while assuring that this will be “sustainable”, Gabriel Attal announced good news: the maintenance of the tariff shield in 2023. Invited on France Inter this Saturday, September 3, the Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts confirmed it. “I am preparing the budget for 2023. My state of mind is that it must not allow the French bill or our public finances to be derailed,” he said. What increase in 2023? “In 2022, the electricity bill should have increased by 40%, it was blocked at 4%, he recalled. In 2023, if we did nothing, the electricity bill would increase by 100%, i.e. 120 euros on average per month.” If the “final arbitrations must be made in the coming days”, Gabriel Attal did not hide that there will be “a part of the effort” to be provided for the French. By keeping “the same orders of magnitude” mentioned by the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts for 2022, the price of electricity could increase by 10% in 2023. A level close to that mentioned by a ministerial source at the end of August to our colleagues from Parisian, advancing as a likely track a “rise in gas and electricity prices, between 10 and 20%”. “We will maintain a protective system for purchasing power”, in any case promised Gabriel Attal on France Inter.