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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der Standard DELeft candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to build a "global front of block-free states" and withdraw Macron's pension reform
The leader of the far left gathered his supporters on Saturday to present them with a new version of his infernal "Future in common". At the head of the polls, he assured that he did not intend to "put water in his wine." By throwing the media in pasture or designating racists to everything goes, he prepares his sympathizers for a brutal seizure of power or for the civil war, dreads our columnist... The article Why Mélenchon threatens democracy …
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".
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