French presidential hopeful Melenchon pledges minimum wage rise, retirement at 60
- On Nov 7, hard-left French presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Melenchon launched his 2027 election program, pledging to restore the national retirement age to 60 and raise the minimum wage.
- His manifesto, titled 'Avenir' or 'Shared Future,' is the fifth edition of the France Unbowed platform and features a repeal of President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform that raised the retirement age from 62 to 64.
- The program proposes increasing the net monthly minimum wage to €1,700 from around €1,480 while phasing out nuclear power and scrapping the planned EPR2 reactor program.
- Melenchon's foreign policy platform criticizes German influence on European Union economic policy and calls for France's gradual withdrawal from NATO, starting with an exit from its integrated military command.
- At 75, Melenchon remains the strongest left-wing contender; recent opinion polls project him reaching the presidential runoff next April against far-right candidate Marine, though he would likely lose.
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The party of the radical left candidate for French president, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has included in its official program the country's withdrawal from NATO and the nationalization of some of the main defense industry companies. In the 222-page program published on Friday, "France Unbowed" calls for the immediate withdrawal from NATO's integrated command and then, gradually, a complete withdrawal from the Alliance. The party also opposes the target…
France's left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon officially launched his campaign.
The day after the publication of his program in the form of a new version of "L'Avenir en commun", the unsolicited candidate at L'Élysée gathered several thousand people at the Bourget Exhibition Centre, near Paris, on Saturday, November 7. A meeting during which he spoke widely to the youth and evacuated calls to show "less cleavage".
French left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon introduces election program
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