Promises and figures. The pretender of La France insoumise (LFI) at the Elysée, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, will detail today, Saturday March 12, the costing of his presidential program.
For the occasion, the LFI candidate does not plan a rally strictly speaking, but rather a live broadcast on his social networks.
According to the information available yesterday evening, it must be done today at the Chesnaie du Roy pavilion, in the floral park of Paris (12th arrondissement).
After going to the Paris march for the climate at 2 p.m., Jean-Luc Mélenchon has planned no less than three hours, at the end of the afternoon, to present in detail the costing of his program.
The major economic issues scrutinized
From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., economists, experts and parliamentarians from or close to the party will present various themes such as purchasing power, taxation of assets and businesses, taxes, education, youth, health, safety or the protection of the planet.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he will close the ball by facing four journalists specializing in economics. A performance that should certainly be scrutinized also on the side of his opponents, ready to take up the slightest misstep.
And for good reason: the Rebellious candidate, credited with an average of 11% of voting intentions, is to date the best placed on the left in the race for the supreme office.
With the wind in its sails in a moribund left, it is thus getting closer and closer to the candidate Les Républicains Valérie Pécresse and the strong man of Reconquest Eric Zemmour, given neck and neck between 11 and 13%.
In an attempt to convince voters, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already indicated that he wants to set up a “tax revolution”, with the aim of “making the tax fairer”, according to Les Echos, the economic newspaper having had access to its final tax plan.
The rebellious candidate also plans to restore the wealth tax abolished in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron and wants to modify the income tax scale to make it more progressive, by cutting it into fourteen installments against five currently.
So many proposals that have a certain cost – or a certain cost – but which we can reasonably think will be ardently defended, when we remember that in 2017, the same exercise lasted more than five hours.