“We are very proud to join the entire left and the environmentalists,” said Socialist Party (PS) leader Olivier Faure, adding that “when the essential is at stake, we are always there . ”
He new French Popular Frontthat brings the left parties together for the next one early parliamentary electionshas been presented as the only alternative to the rise to power of the far right, which is favored in the polls, after the landslide victory it achieved in the European elections, in which it destroyed the government’s former majority. Macron.
The leaders of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Manuel BompardSocialist Party (PS), Olivier Faureof the Ecologists, Marie Tondelierand the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, have offered a joint press conference. “We are very proud to join the whole left and the environmentalists,” said Faure, who added that “when the essential is at stake, we are always there.”
The new Popular Front has promised to raise the issue minimum wage up to 1600 euros per month net and restore the tax on large fortunes which President Emmanuel Macron suppressed. These measures appear in a list 150 proposals which represent a “total break with Emmanuel Macron’s policies,” Bompard said.
The main axis of the program of this new Popular Front are measures in favor of purchasing power, which include, in addition to a rapid increase in the minimum wage (now it amounts to a net of 1,400 euros per month) and the indexation of wages with inflation, the “blocking food and energy prices”.
Also the reintroduction of the Fortune Tax (ISF), which Macron abolished at the beginning of his first term in 2017 to attract investors and prevent the departure of wealthy people who settle abroad to pay less taxes.
Faure has assured that if the Popular Front comes to power, it will be abolished “in the first 15 days” Macron’s controversial pension reform, which postpones the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64, and also the unemployment insurance reform, which tightens the conditions for collecting the subsidy, and which should come into force from the same summer.
Another top measure promised by the left would be “a truly free school”including the dining room, transportation and school supplies.
For his part, EH Bai has decided to become part of this new Popular Front of the left. The members of EH Bai will therefore stand for this candidacy in the constituencies of Ipar Euskal Herria. 95.3% of militants voted in favor of joining this front during an extraordinary meeting held on Thursday.
Source: EITB
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