Communist candidate Fabien Roussel declared on France 2 on Monday that he wanted to introduce “zero taxation” on inheritance tax “below 118,000 euros” of inheritance, to “guarantee each modest, middle-class family” the possibility of to transmit.
“I am for making the heritage popular,” declared Fabien Roussel, who will make his back-to-school speech on Monday evening, in front of the PCF headquarters in Paris.
He promised that “below 118,000 euros, which is the amount of the average inheritance, there will be no inheritance tax, regardless of the descendants”.
“Above” 118,000 euros, he promises “a progressive tax and indeed a higher tax on the highest assets”.
Fabien Roussel wants to take the question “in reverse” from the rebellious candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who wants to tax everything above 12 million euros at 100% and allocate this revenue to an allowance of studies for all young people.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also proposes to exempt from inheritance tax 120,000 euros per person, and provides for “social adoption”, the possibility for two people without family ties to create mutual rights, assistance and access to inheritance. These people would be called “civil partners”.
Fabien Roussel, credited with 2% of the voting intentions, says he embodies “a left that is resolutely on the side of the people” and defends “the steak of the French”.
“And to defend the Frenchman’s steak, you have to have a good salary, you have to have a good retirement,” he insisted.
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He has been the subject of controversy on social networks in recent weeks for having tweeted that French gastronomy was for him “good wine, good meat, good cheese”, being criticized in particular by the candidate for the primary ecologist Sandrine Rousseau for remarks which according to her “exclude part of the gastronomy which takes place in France”.
“This controversy over food has revealed what the left does not want to see, a part of the left which is cut off from the people”, reacted Fabien Roussel.
Asked about the arrival of Christiane Taubira in the campaign, he stressed that it was for him above all “one more candidacy”, whereas “she had said that she would not be added. After that, it’s project against project,” he added.