PARIS, June 14 (Reuters) – Here are the main measures of the program of the “new Popular Front” – bringing together La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Ecologists and the Communist Party – unveiled on Friday.
The left-wing alliance will present single candidates in almost all of France’s 577 constituencies in the early legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.
ECONOMY :
– Blocking the prices of essential goods in food, energy and fuel by decree
– Repeal of the decrees implementing the pension reform and that of unemployment insurance
– Objective of returning to retirement at 60
– Contribution on dividends, participation, employee savings, share buybacks, overtime
– Increase in the minimum wage to EUR 1,600 net, 10% increase in the index point for civil servants
– Launch of commercial negotiations to guarantee “a floor and remunerative price for farmers and by taxing the superprofits of agro-industrialists and mass retailers”
– Increase in the progressiveness of income tax to 14 brackets
– Establishment of a progressive CSG
– Reinstatement of a reinforced wealth solidarity tax (ISF) with a climate component
– Removal of the flat tax
– Reform of the inheritance tax by targeting the highest assets and establishing maximum inheritance
– Increase in taxation of financial transactions
ENVIRONMENT :
– Development of an energy-climate law
– Moratorium on major highway projects and mega-basins
– Kilometer tax on imported products
– Construction of 200,000 public housing units per year for five years “to the most ambitious ecological standards”
PUBLIC SERVICES
– Public Hospital Rescue Conference
– In Education, repeal of the “clash of knowledge” and promotion of completely free education
EUROPE
– Refusal of the “austerity constraints” of the Fiscal Compact
– Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
– End of free trade treaties
INTERNATIONAL
– “Immediate ceasefire in Gaza”
– Recognition of a “State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel on the basis of UN resolutions”
– Act for the release of hostages “detained since the Hamas terrorist massacres”
– Defend Ukraine against Russia “by delivering necessary weapons”
COMPANY :
– Interministerial plans to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
– Stopping the Universal National Service (SNU)
INSTITUTIONS
– Introduction of proportional representation in elections
– Repeal of article 49.3 of the Constitution which allows the government to adopt a text without a vote
– Development of a law to combat gender-based and sexual violence, with a budget of EUR2.6 billion
SECURITY
Reestablishment of community policing, maintenance of gendarmes, increase in judicial police personnel, dismantling of the BRAV-M. (Written by Elizabeth Pineau, edited by Sophie Louet)
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