Le Pen Vows Drastic Cost Savings to Prevent French 'Default'
Le Pen said the plan would cut France’s deficit below the EU limit by 2030 and save €140 billion by 2032.
- On Tuesday, French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen announced €140 billion in cost savings by 2032 if elected next year, warning France is "heading towards default" without significant fiscal change. The plan increases her previously proposed €125 billion in savings.
- French government bond yields soared to early-2000s levels in recent weeks, jeopardizing fiscal forecasts amid market uncertainty over France's strained public finances. Le Pen sought fiscal credibility after her ally Jordan Bardella, National Rally party leader, faced antisemitic accusations, which he denied.
- Her plan includes a constitutional "golden rule" requiring annual deficit reductions until national debt falls to 60% from 119%, pension reforms generating €15-20 billion in savings by correcting "inefficient and unfair" measures, and elimination of more than 120 taxes.
- French bond yields briefly dipped during Le Pen's remarks but stabilized at 4.75%, roughly where they stood before her speech. She vowed to urge the European Central Bank to "ease the burden" of interest rates once France restores public finance control.
- Polling last week showed Le Pen leading both rounds of next year's April-May election, yet fiscal credibility remains contested. Business leaders express skepticism over her euroscepticism and plans to reverse the 2023 pension reform, while convincing financial markets to fund her proposals remains critical.
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A recent poll showed that Le Pen would easily lead the presidential's first round and impose himself on the balloting against any other rival in his fourth attempt to achieve the keys to the Elysée.
Far-right presidential election candidate Marine Le Pen presented her party's shadow budget plan, which promised €140 trillion in cost saving over five years, trunging the deficit back under 3% of GDP by 2030 and a budgetary referendum.
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Le Pen eyes bond markets with bigger spending cuts pledge if far right win presidential vote
By Michel Rose and Leigh Thomas PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Marine Le Pen sharply increased her plans to slash spending if she wins next year's French presidential election, an announcement designed to establish the far right's fiscal credentials as tensi...
France's most popular presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announced on Tuesday that if she is elected president next year, she will implement spending cuts of 140 billion euros by 2032. Le Pen also warned that without cuts, the country is heading towards insolvency.
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