Legislative elections 2024: what to remember from the debate between Jordan Bardella, Manuel Bompard and Gabriel Attal

Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard took part in a debate on TF1 this Tuesday evening, five days before the legislative elections. The Prime Minister, the leader of the National Rally and the coordinator of France Insoumise discussed various subjects ranging from purchasing power to security and immigration issues, including ecology and public services. This discussion – in which the Republicans did not take part – lasted a little over 1h30.

Attal wants to free up time for doctors

The Prime Minister intends to “free up medical time for doctors”, recalling in particular that pharmacists are now authorized to “prescribe antibiotics in cases of angina or cystitis”. The Prime Minister wishes to continue on this path by “delegating a certain number of acts and tasks to other health professionals”.

Bardella wants to “debureaucratize health”

“We must give power back to caregivers and debureaucratize health,” says Jordan Bardella. The president of the RN also wants to put an end to the regional health agencies and replace them with a prefect dedicated to the local level.

Public services, last theme discussed

The debate is coming to an end and the three politicians are now discussing the issue of public services. For Manuel Bompard, it is essential that all public services “be less than 30 minutes” from people’s homes. “We must regulate the installation of doctors, we must save our emergency system which is in a very fragile situation,” he adds, while calling for an “emergency plan” for the hospital In France.

The three debaters discuss school

Gabriel Attal notably defends the ban on the abaya, put in place during his time at the Ministry of National Education. “La France insoumise, at the time, attacked me over this decision, including in court, to try to have it annulled. The Council of State validated this decision which made it possible to clearly reaffirm the rules.” On the question of secularism, Manuel Bompard pleads for “full application of the 1905 law to schools” but calls for “real free education”. “We have more and more children who come to school and who have great difficulty in being able to benefit from supplies, school books to be able to study in good conditions,” he adds.

Finally, Jordan Bardella reaffirms his desire to ban cell phones in schools and advocates a “big bang of authority” at school. “I want to continue experimenting with the uniform,” he adds.

Heated exchanges on insecurity

“You promise a lot Mr. Attal, but what have you done?” denounces Jordan Bardella, when discussing the outbreak of violence, particularly among minors. He points to “record levels of insecurity”. “There is no longer a woman who does not fear for her safety depending on her outfit, the time at which she returns home,” says the president of the RN. “When you have enough police officers to arrest a young person who commits delinquent acts in a neighborhood, but the next day, after his arrest, the same young person is in the same neighborhood doing the same thing, obviously that’s the case. is unbearable”, concedes Gabriel Attal.

For his part, Manuel Bompard suggests “reestablishing community policing”. However, “we should not judge a minor like an adult”, he defends, while rejecting the term “minority excuse”, ensuring that there are only “sentence mitigations”.

Attal criticizes RN proposal to ban dual nationals from certain positions

“This means that dual nationals are not trustworthy enough to hold these positions,” the head of government castigates. “Of course, when jobs are assigned to sensitive positions, there are investigations, and they already exist. But you want to focus your measure on those who have two nationalities and leave the others aside,” Manuel Bompard insists. “A Franco-Russian at the head of a nuclear power station, that doesn’t pose a problem for you?” Bardella replies to the Prime Minister.

The debaters now discuss immigration issues

“Over the last ten years, it has been established that immigration brings in 10 billion euros each year,” defends Manuel Bompard. “the first thing to do is to tackle the causes of migration, to ensure that there are fewer people who need to leave,” he adds. “Conversely, Jordan Bardella calls for drastically reducing migratory flows – “a balance of 10,000 legal entries per year” – and for putting an end to land law. “Soil law no longer makes sense in a world to 8 billion people. Immigration is a major subject that disrupts our identity, our security and the balance of public accounts.”

Bompard speaks of “challenge of the century”

The LFI coordinator calls for “much more to be done to fight global warming”, referring in particular to “thermal renovation of housing”.

Attal defends its environmental record

“We have increased the budget for the ecological transition by 8 billion euros. In recent years, we have reduced CO2 emissions by 20% in our country, this is unprecedented, because we are investing to support the French”, defends Gabriel Attal.

Place for ecological questions

“I would like a moratorium on the construction of new wind projects,” suggests Jordan Bardella, who questions their energy efficiency. “How do you manage to meet the demand for electricity, while waiting for the commissioning of nuclear reactors, without wind turbines?”, answers Gabriel Attal.

Bardella proposes to exempt under-30s from wealth tax

“With you, Kylian Mbappé would have done better to stay in France and not go to Spain,” smiles Gabriel Attal.

What about taxes?

Manuel Bompard estimates that with the New Popular Front program, “92% of French people will pay the same or less taxes, the richest 8%”. For his part, Gabriel Attal assures that his “golden rule” is not to increase taxes and suggests reducing taxes, particularly on inheritances. For Jordan Bardella, the urgency in this matter is to “carry out an audit of the state accounts”. “I will not increase taxes and I will be the prime minister of fiscal peace,” he promises.

“All of this is not serious,” criticizes Attal

“Don’t take the risk of seeing your employee contributions increase to finance these reforms,” ​​urges the Prime Minister, who targets Manuel Bompard in particular, the bearer, he says, of “a 40 billion euro project that is not funded and which will necessarily lead to a tax bludgeoning of the French”. “I propose the implementation of a bonus/penalty on companies that lay off seniors. I want to implement the senior index that had been censored by the Constitutional Council,” he suggests.

Manuel Bompard’s response to Jordan Bardella on pensions

Taking the example of the Frenchman starting his career at 24, Manuel Bompard elaborates. “This person will be able to retire at 60, but he will not benefit from a full pension. For that, he will have to retire at 64,” suggests the representative of France Insoumise.

On to the theme of retirement

“Pension reform is socially unjust and economically ineffective,” denounces Jordan Bardella. Taking the example of a French person who starts working at 24 after his studies, Jordan Bardella announces a retirement age of 66, “after 42 years”, compared to 60 years for a French person who has started in life professional at 17. “It is normal that those who start working later retire later,” he defends.

“You are a social scam”, says Bardella to Bompard on the increase in the minimum wage

Jordan Bardella attacks Manuel Bompard and his desire to raise the minimum wage to 1,600 euros. “You have a problem with work. If you sell the bosses an increase in the minimum wage, it will fall on them, it is they who will have to assume the increase in costs,” he denounces. For his part, the coordinator of France Insoumise denounced “the biggest drop in purchasing power in the last 40 years”. “Why, then, not increase the minimum wage to 3,000 euros?” asks Gabriel Attal, not without irony.

The three debaters clash over purchasing power

“The difference with my competitors is that I am not going to make the French believe in the Moon,” attacks Gabriel Attal, in response to Jordan Bardella’s speech castigating a French state that is “nearly bankrupt”. The leader of the National Rally emphasizes his desire to lower VAT to 5.5% on essential products. For his part, Manuel Bompard denounces the “abandoned measures” of the boss of the RN.