Presidential 2022: risks and inconsistencies of Economic Program of Marine Le Pen

Behind seductive appearance proposals on purchasing power, the NR candidate presents a largely inapplicable, unequal and ruptured project with the European Union.

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She assures him, she changed. Tone, teaching, smile of circumstance: the Navy Le Pen 2022 is no longer that of 2017, whose gross errors of numbers and the disjointed benefit during the debate of the between-tours had precipitated the defeat in the urns. Its economic program also evolved: exit, the exit of the euro or retirement at 60 pure and simple.

Place to a desire to “protect” the French, and to appearance proposals that are entitled on the purchasing power (decrease in value added tax on energy and fuels, deletion of this tax on The basic property, retirement at age 60 with forty annuities for people who started working before 20 years, exemption over a 10% increase in wages up to three smic …).

Objective: To seduce his favorite electorate, the popular classes – In the first round, 36% of the workers and employees voted for the candidate of the National Gathering (RN), according to a Sopra-Steria survey of April 10, against respectively 23% and 25% for the candidate of France unsuitable, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

But, if the program and the image of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter were policented, his tax and social promises raise several questions and face multiple obstacles, legal, political as economic.

1. Unconstitutional measures

The NR candidate, who chose the slogan “for all French” for the second round, plans to start his mandate by a referendum for establishing a “national priority” in particular in terms of employment, aid. and social housing.

It will also be necessary to condition solidarity benefits at five years of work in France, and to remove the residence permit from any foreigner who has not worked for a year. So many provisions that go against the Constitution. In other words, it would open an unprecedented institutional crisis.

Without this law, the fundamentals of his program collapse like a cards castle. In economic matters, it loses its main source of funding, namely the abolition for foreigners of non-contributory social benefits (the active solidarity income, allocation to adults with disabilities, family allowances, the specific solidarity allowance, the The specific allowance for the elderly and state medical aid), which it estimates at 16 billion euros – the National Family Allowance Fund and the Court of Auditors quantifies around 6 billion euros. More.

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