French Presidential Hopeful Mélenchon Set to Launch Campaign by Vowing to Lower Retirement Age
The hard-left leader also proposes higher taxes on the wealthy, price caps on essentials and a gradual phaseout of nuclear power.
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(Brussels=Yonhap News) Correspondent Hyun Yoon-kyung = Jean-Luc Mélenchon (75), leader of France Unbowed (LFI) and a leading presidential candidate in France, [advocates] raising the minimum wage, retirement...
French presidential hopeful Mélenchon set to launch campaign by vowing to lower retirement age
Veteran leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon is set to formally announce his plan to raise France's minimum wage, cap prices for essential foods and restore the country's retirement age to 60 in a speech launching his 2027 presidential election programme on Saturday. Polls currently indicate that he is the left wing's strongest contender against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate for the presidency of France from the radical left, will promise, on the occasion of the launch of his electoral program for 2027, Saturday, raising the minimum wage and returning to...
The radical left Jean-Luc Mélenchon has presented his program with which he hopes to win the French presidential elections in 2027. According to the latest polls, France is heading for a battle between the radical right Marine Le Pen and Mélenchon.
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