More liberal than in 2017, Emmanuel Macron was projected to be reelected in a campaign in which he preached a France where “everybody works more”, with retirement at age 65 but vowing in return to give fulltime employment.
The center’s current president has promised a €10 billion (almost $11 billion) reduction in corporate taxes if reelected, and also wants to reward professors for merit.
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He also defends a number of social measures, such as the possibility for unmarried couples to submit a joint tax return and raising the minimum pension to 1,100 euros.
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Although one of its main actions is to strengthen nuclear energy for electricity generation, it also wants to develop renewable energy.
Below are the main measures of his program, estimated to cost €50 billion a year, not counting tax cuts:
- Half an hour of exercise a day and two more hours a week in high school.
- introduce high school students to technical and manual trades; teach programming.
- Reform vocational training, increase practical activities in companies.
- Adapt university locations to professional needs.
- Make sure absent teachers are replaced.
- Mathematics as a common subject at school.
- Let France produce medicines again.
- Fight to solve the problem of regions without enough doctors.
- Hire nurses and helpers for hospitals.
- Gradually raise the retirement age from 62 to 65.
- Raising the minimum full pension to 1,100 euros per month.
- Hire 50,000 nurses and nursing assistants by 2027.
- Make it easier for pensioners to pursue a professional activity.
- Subsidy up to 70% of the cost of housing adaptation.
- Start a town meeting to reflect on the end of life.
- Condition of minimum income of 15 or 20 hours of service or training.
- Eliminate the listing of the added value of the companies, i.e. 10 billion euros a year in total.
- Triple the limit of the “Macron bonus” companies can pay their workers without paying taxes.
- Companies that pay dividends need to reward their employees.
- Abolition of the audiovisual tax.
- Inheritance tax exemption of up to €150,000 per child and €100,000 for additional family members.
- Universalize an account that allows you to save vacation days or receive payments instead of enjoying them.
- Build six new generation nuclear reactors, investigate the possibility of another eight.
- Boost solar power tenfold, build 50 offshore wind farms by 2050, manufacture millions of electric and hybrid vehicles.
- To condition the remuneration of the directors of large companies with regard to environmental and social goals.
- Renovate 700,000 homes per year.
- Strengthen border controls in the European Union (EU) and France.
- Accelerate asylum procedures and identify them more effectively in the event of rejection.
- Make the permanent residence permit conditional on passing a French test and taking up employment.
- Expel foreigners who disturb public order.
- Complete the doubling of the presence of security forces on the streets and mobilize 200 new police brigades.
- Apply fixed fines for everyday violations.
- Hire 8,500 additional judges and judicial officers.
- Doubling the number of deployable reservists in the armed forces.