Macron and Le Pen: what the programs on security, energy, taxes foresee
The programmatic differences between Macron and Le Pen for the presidential ballot in France. All the details
Emmanuel Macron closed the first round of the French presidential elections at 27.85%, while his main opponent, Marine Le Pen , at 23.15%. There are many issues that the two candidates will have to spend in view of the ballot: the current tenant of the Elysée will play the game on the social, having been accused of being far from the daily problems of the French, the leader of Rassemblement National, who already likes a those who live in the suburbs will continue to insist on security and the need for a penal system that ensures the certainty of the sentence. So here are the Macron and Le Pen programs compared.
SOCIAL
Macron dusted off an electoral promise of 2017, that is to want to "simplify" aid so that all French people who are eligible can receive it. This simplification, defined by the president as a system of "solidarity at the source", would take the form of aid for "20 million French" which will take the form of various bonuses and family allowances, including RSA, equivalent to our citizenship income. Fifteen billion will be earmarked for tax cuts. Macron also said he was aiming for "full employment" within five years.
Marine Le Pen for her part intends to introduce strong limits on social benefits for families and family allowances for non-French people or in any case for those couples in which both members are not French, while the RSA will be granted only to foreigners who prove that they have completed five full years of work in France.
He wants to proceed with the 10% reduction of the first three income tax bands and restore the additional half of the tax for widowers and widowers. It also intends to reform the system of donations from parents to their children, which would be exempt from tax up to a limit of € 100,000 per child and € 50,000 for grandchildren. As for purchasing power, Marine le Pen wants to lower VAT from 20% to 5.5% on energy.
It wants to promote the entry of young people with "total" exemption from taxes for the first five years, supporting their training (a training voucher for companies) and promises "public loans with zero interest" for "young families" aged average less than 30 years up to 100,000 euros maximum for the home loan whose "residual capital (will be) canceled by the third child". In this case, however, couples must have at least one citizen of French nationality. The leader of RN has promised to return an average of 200 euros per month to French families through tax cuts on energy (gas, fuel, electricity, etc.).
POWER
Both candidates were accused of having given little space to energy issues and the fight against climate. Macron reiterated its commitment to build six new nuclear reactors by 2050, while feasibility studies will be launched for another eight nuclear power plants. As for renewable energies, "solar power will be multiplied by ten" and, again by 2050, France will have "fifty wind farms at sea", the president has promised the French on several occasions. The current tenant of the Elysée also wants to support the purchase of electric cars, through “leasing mechanisms to accompany the more modest households and allow them to change their vehicles”. "We will deploy an affordable offer of electric vehicles," he said as he presented the program to the press.
Its rival, Marine Le Pen , has instead promised to stop all projects in this regard and has repeatedly floated the idea of removing the existing wind farms. Marine Le Pen 's energy program focuses primarily on the need to remove subsidies granted to renewable energy such as wind or solar. Le Pen is instead in favor of nuclear power, one of the few issues in which he appears to agree with his rival.
SCHOOL
Macron plans to reform education from scratch, calling it "broad consultation". In short, she wants to deny the accusations of being an autocrat and promises to "revolutionize the method collectively" by starting "with a broad consultation to discuss the best way to achieve the objectives by bringing all the stakeholders around the table".
In his electoral program, Macron promises "a new pact with teachers" which will consist in first "significantly increasing the salary". The increase will be linked to the "definition of new objectives". While an iron fist is guaranteed with absentee teachers and promises a school capable of proceeding quickly with the "replacement of absent teachers because we owe our students and their parents the entire lesson time".
Marine Le Pen would abolish the teaching of languages and cultures of origin, the so-called ELCO. Failure to attend would be punished by suspending family allowances and scholarships. It would increase teachers' salaries by 3% per year. He would like to limit the number of students per class in primary school to twenty and thirty in high school and reform the professional path. It proposes to create 100,000 social housing per year, “of which 20,000 for students and young workers”, with privileged access for the French. The candidate proposes "the systematic definition, by law, of the content of the lessons", validated upstream by the Minister of Education.
HEALTH
On the health front, which Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly indicated at the top of his future and future government agenda for the next 5 years, the electoral program promises to improve "access to emergency care" also through "the simplification of hospital and its governance "with the aim of improving the" prevention policy ". Starting from the experience gained during the years of the pandemic, the French president repeated on several occasions that "we need to be able to go much farther, faster and stronger". For this reason, the Minister of Health, Olivier Vèran , has promised the organization of "a great conference" on the health system if Macron is re-elected.
Marine Le Pen has promised she will reinstate all unvaccinated nursing staff who have been suspended following the anti-Covid measures. The Rassemblement National candidate also said she was in favor of retroactive payment of wages not paid during the suspension period, which she considers an attack on personal freedom. Finally, the far-right candidate reaffirmed her opposition to vaccination of children and, more generally, to compulsory vaccination.
As for the modernization of the national system, his is a plan worth € 20 billion over five years, of which € 2 billion to increase the salaries of health personnel and hire 10,000 units. On the other hand, it also intends to abolish the regional health agencies and set a 10% ceiling for administrative positions in hospitals, in order to allow the recruitment of more nursing staff. The exponent of RN proposes to strengthen the staff of the emergency services, to organize a partnership with the city medicine to lighten the hospital and to create a separate sector for older people. To increase the number of doctors, Le Pen proposes strong financial incentives, the development of telemedicine, and on the university front "enough places in the medical faculties to have the doctors that the French need".
SAFETY
Macron had said he wanted to bring the defense budget to 50 billion euros in 2025, by increasing the reservists. The founder of En Marche intends to "invest in cutting-edge technologies and strengthen investments in order to guarantee a high-intensity war that can return to our continent" and, on the security front, in order not to leave the field open to the rival, he promised to raise agents and gendarmes. He also spoke of a European metaverse to make the EU independent of Chinese and US technology providers.
Le Pen intends to proceed with the repeal of the criminal laws that would push the judiciary into "judicial laxity". The right-wing candidate intends to double the number of magistrates to bring it to 20,000 by 2028 and increase the number of employees and administrative or technical staff. He promises the police "the presumption of legitimate defense". In the criminal field, he proposes to "put drug dealers in prison" and to adapt the sentences of drug dealers according to the kilograms or grams of drugs they have. Persons convicted of sexist insults will be entered in the register of criminals and sex offenders. Its security and justice bill aims at an increase of € 1.5 billion a year in the budget, the creation of 7,000 police and gendarmerie posts and 3,000 administrative staff. It intends to increase the number of prisons to 85,000 by 2028. For minors, it provides for a doubling of educational sanctions with financial penalties for parents (including the suspension of family allowances).
PENSIONS
Emmanuel Macron starts out at a disadvantage, as he intends to complete the reform of the system that provides for retirement at the age of 65 instead of 60, offering in exchange a reduction in inheritance tax. "We need to work harder and longer, as Italy, Spain and Germany and so many of our neighbors have already done: it will be necessary in a concerted and progressive manner to increase the retirement age to 65", he had to admit. tenant of the Elysée.
Marine Le Pen insists that you must retire at 60 and that the 40-year contribution rate cannot apply to everyone, as "the sooner you start working, the more you retire at a reasonable age" , since “when you start early it is often because you are doing manual work, while when you enter working life later it is often because you are doing intellectual work which is much less tiring,” says the RN candidate. Furthermore, he promised not to de-index pensions, linking them to inflation, increasing the minimums to a thousand euros. It also intends to reform the discipline of inheritances and donations to children and grandchildren.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/macron-e-le-pen-cosa-prevedono-i-loro-programmi-su-sicurezza-energia-tasse/ on Sun, 24 Apr 2022 06:06:18 +0000.