It is a debate where Marine Le Pen has taken the lead on economic issues. On Wednesday evening, for nearly three hours, the National Rally candidate debated many issues such as purchasing power, secularism or the war in Ukraine with outgoing President Emmanuel Macron in view of the second round of the presidential election. . We saw a powerful Marine Le Pen to criticize the economic record of her opponent’s five-year term. “There are 400,000 additional poor people, that’s your result,” she said.
“The Mozart of finance”
Before pointing the finger at the absolute record of 85 billion trade balance deficit and the weak increase in productivity and launching: “The Mozart of finance has a very bad economic balance sheet and an even worse social balance sheet.” Marine Le Pen then criticized the outgoing president for not having actually lowered unemployment, if categories B and C were taken into account.
To conclude, she called on Emmanuel Macron to be modest, stressing that he was the president who “created 600 billion euros of additional debt in five years, two thirds of which have nothing to do with Covid-19. “. Exact numbers. INSEE has actually noted an increase in public debt of precisely 616 billion euros in four years.
As the MP for Pas-de-Calais pointed out, the Court of Auditors has correctly assessed the State’s “Covid debt” at “only” 165 billion euros out of these 616 billion, i.e. almost a third of this debt.
The management of Covid-19 in the line of sight
Overall, on the theme of health, she was comfortable using a compassionate register to exhume the image of harshness sometimes returned by the executive during the Covid-19 crisis.
Deeming the investments made within the framework of the Ségur de la santé insufficient, in particular to increase the salaries of caregivers, the RN candidate promised to improve working conditions at the public hospital by injecting 20 billion euros over five years. . In detail, ten billion for wage increases, and ten billion in equipment.
Marine Le Pen was also indignant at the dismissal of “15,000 caregivers because they were not vaccinated against Covid”. An exact figure, but somewhat imprecise since the caregivers in question were not dismissed, their contracts were suspended.
Finally, on nursing homes, she wants to both strengthen controls and increase the workforce. It thus plans to impose a minimum number of staff in relation to the number of residents and also pleads for a coordinating doctor to be assigned to each establishment and for a nurse to be present 24 hours a day.