Three weeks of blitzkrieg campaigning began before the first round of legislative elections on June 30 and then the second on July 7. Have you not followed all the developments since the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron? Today, we quote Gabriel Attal who puts the two “extremes” back to back (for a change), we count the proxies which multiply as the first round approaches and the Popular Front draws up the invoice for its program.
The number of the day
1,055,067. There’s a rush to the police stations. Since the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly followed by the organization of early legislative elections, the French have been organizing themselves to be able to vote. Given the fairly short deadline and a sometimes already busy schedule far from their polling station, many of them have completed the proxy process.
The Ministry of the Interior thus registered more than a million proxies between June 10 and 20. Exactly 1,055,067 proxies established. The 2022 figure for the legislative elections, where 1,021,350 proxies were established for the first round, has already been exceeded. This is therefore “6.2 times more proxies” than in the last legislative elections.
Sentence of the day
“ La France insoumise fuels the National Rally and the National Rally fuels La France insoumise » »
The government would probably like to make it one everywhere and ball in the center. Recover the majority ball in the National Assembly and retain the reins of power. This is why the strategy adopted by the Prime Minister who went on campaign is to warn against the “two extreme blocs which feed off each other” which “all fuel on the divisions between the French, on the stigmatization of a part of the French, not the same each time”. Gabriel Attal thus targeted La France insoumise and the National Rally.
He was traveling to Marseille to support two candidates from the presidential majority. “Insoumise France fuels the National Rally and the National Rally fuels Insoumise France,” insisted Gabriel Attal. “We will have to fight from June 30, a lot will be at stake in the first round,” continued the Prime Minister, assuring that “the only useful vote to prevent extremes” is that for the Together for the Republic candidates.
Today’s trend
Fiscal recovery is the slogan displayed by the left united behind its program, the economic contours of which were revealed this Friday, nine days before the first round of legislative elections. According to figures from the New Popular Front, additional public spending could reach 25 billion euros from 2024, and 150 billion at the end of 2027, for equivalent revenue.
Among the key measures from 2024, the introduction of a wealth tax (ISF) “with a climate component”. This would bring in 15 billion euros, just like a tax on superprofits.
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The revenue would be used to finance in particular the revaluation of personal housing allowances (APL) by 10%, the repeal of pension and unemployment insurance reforms and a 10% increase in the index point of civil servants. The left promises to “help” small businesses to bear the cost of increasing the minimum wage from 14% to 1,600 euros net and is considering a new “major law” before 2027 on a return to retirement at 60.