The left-green coalition New Popular Front wants to prevent Le Pen from gaining a majority in France. He has now presented a serious plan for this.
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France’s New Popular Front, a left-green socialist coalition, presented its plan at a meeting with French employers’ association Medef, which has called for a break with Macron’s economic policies and a return to more social action. The Popular Front plans to lower the retirement age to 62, raise the minimum wage and halt major infrastructure projects. Despite criticism from the association and Macron, the Popular Front has drawn support from various groups that fear Le Pen’s party coming to power. The forecast for the parliamentary elections is uncertain, but the Popular Front could represent a strong opposition.
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This meeting cannot be amicable: representatives of the new Popular Front last week Appeared at Medef, the French employers’ association, the mood was icy. The polite applause died down after a few seconds. In the end, the newly formed left-green-socialist alliance will mean nothing more than a break from Emmanuel Macron’s economic policy: a break with the economic agenda that dominates Europe.
The Popular Front promises to lower the retirement age back to 62 and raise the minimum wage from 1,400 to 1,600 euros. This would be accompanied by “heavy taxation” of high profits in industry, for example in the food and energy sectors. Big projects pushed forward by Macron, such as the expansion of highways or so-called megabasins to store water for the meat industry, must also be stopped.
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