Presidential: the (very) poorly funded program of Marine Le Pen

AT a few days before the first round of the presidential election, Point offers you a decryption of the financing of Marine Le Pen’s program, as we did for that of Emmanuel Macron. As if by a miracle, the two candidates have balanced – on paper – their income and their expenditure: 50 billion for the outgoing president (about 2 points of GDP), about 68 billion for the candidate of the National Rally (a little more than 2, 5 points of GDP). The project’s costing exercise is partly artificial, especially since neither of the two candidates delivers an annual trajectory of public revenue and expenditure, any more than a projection of annual growth on which they would rely.

Marine Le Pen promises the French a lot of honey, but does not ask them…