French presidential hopeful Melenchon pledges minimum wage rise, retirement at 60
Mélenchon’s platform also targets wealthy households and major corporations, with measures the party says would raise €106.4 billion a year.
- 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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French left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon introduces election program
Presenting his presidential program for 2027 at a rally in Le Bourget, a suburb north of Paris, Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticized NATO and "American wars" while promising economic recovery based on stimulus measures, the Paris newspaper Le Monde reported.
In his 2027 program, MELENCHON promises to leave NATO, higher wages, return the retirement age to 60, and economic incentives.
Candidate for the Presidency, the leader of the left party France Insubmissa urged its supporters not to resign with the advance of the extreme right
In international politics LFI proposes a change of course with the departure of France from NATO and although it does not propose to leave the European Union, it does argue that the programme chosen by the French should prevail over the Community rules Read
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