Presidential Election 2022: first tracks of Economic Program of Macron candidate

Increasing purchasing power, tax cuts and full employment research are among the proposals of the president candidate.

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“Living from his work”, “Inventing a new growth model”, “Investing to Transform”, “A Protective Europe” … These are Emmanuel Macron’s campaign slogans, but it is not was then president of the Republic. Declined in a dozen chapters, they appeared in the booklet of thirty pages distributed at the press conference during which the candidate for the move! had unveiled its program for a first mandate. It was March 2, 2017.

What remains today of the five-year-old macron, who had chosen to unroll his project under the header “finding our spirit of conquest to build a new France”? After a quinquennate marked by the crisis of the “yellow vests”, the pandemic of Covid-19 and now the war in Ukraine, the head of state is forced to make his speech and his style evolve. It is about reassuring the French, while continuing to infuse the voluntarism of which it has made its trademark.

If the slogan “Liberate, Protect” wanted the summary of its economic and social program in 2017, the candidate of 2022 insists first on the protection, especially purchasing power. Other developments: emphasis on the sovereignty of the country and the need to recreate its industrial power. All, by staging his wish to further associate his compatriots and intermediate bodies with his project. “I want to be able to do differently, because this period has changed us all,” he says in a video put online Friday, March 4th by his campaign team.

“Overall copy around March 20th “

A month of the ballot, Emmanuel Macron still has not revealed a detailed project. His team, however, finalized a booklet of the same type as that of 2017, which should be distributed in mailboxes of the French by a dozen days. “For the moment, we prefer the beaded announcements”, euphemises the entourage of the president candidate, who has been chained a letter in the regional daily press, a campaign video and a very framed session of questions and answers with French In Poissy (Yvelines), Monday, March 7th. His team promises a “global copy around March 20”.

Not surprisingly, the economic component will hold a place of choice. According to our information, the program will include several measures stamped purchasing power, which will go through new tax cuts: a measure on inheritance tax – “People must be accompanied to help them transmit modest heritage,” had Affirmed Macron in Parisian in January -, production taxes and contributions on high wages – close to those advocated by the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor, at the beginning of the year. There will also be a full employment goal – without precise figure – in order to “better live their work”, and measures to articulate professional life and personal life, as the opportunity to decide what you want to do of his RTT. What recall the proposal of the candidate of the Party the Republicans, Valérie Pécresse, to monetize his RTT.

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