PR ESID ENT IAL ELECTION - 23 APRIL AND 7 MAY 2017
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COMMITMENTS
PRESIDENTIAL
Marine 2017
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Marine 2017 - Presidential Commitments
To put France right in five years - this is
the commitment I am making.
My project contains 144 essential
measures, which will be detailed as the
campaign progresses. By presenting
them in this way, I want to give you the
opportunity to scrutinise what I intend to
do as Head of State during my five-year
term. Without these checks, there can be
no healthy democracy.
The aim of this project is first and foremost
to give France back its freedom and to
give the people a voice. For it is in your
name, and for your benefit alone, that any
national policy should be conducted.
I also want to give the French people their money back because, for far too
many years, our social and taxation policies have impoverished the middle and
working classes, whilst enriching multinational corporations and wasting public
money on totally uncontrolled immigration.
My project, as you can see, consists of a genuine revolution of proximity.
Democratic proximity: I want decisions to be taken at a level as close to our
citizens as possible and under their control. Economic proximity: this means
rethinking our territorial development, making sure there are public services
everywhere, relocating our companies and therefore our jobs. No French person,
no corner of France, including the Overseas Territories, for which I have already
presented a complete programme, will be forgotten.
As you are aware, this election will confront two visions. The “globalist” choice
on the one hand, which is the vision shared by my all my adversaries, which
seeks to destroy the economic and social balances in our society, which wants
to abolish all borders - economic and physical - and which wants ever more
immigration and less cohesion between the French people. On the other hand,
there is the patriotic choice, which I am representing in this election, which places
the defence of the nation and the people at the heart of all public decisions and
which, above all else, wishes to protect our national identity, our independence,
the unity of the French people and the prosperity of all.
This choice between two basic visions is the choice that you will be facing it is a choice of civilisations. And it is one that will govern our children’s future.
I - A FRANCE THAT IS FREE
TO RESTORE TO FRANCE ITS SOVEREIGNTY
TO MOVE TOWARDS A EUROPE OF INDEPENDENT NATIONS,
SERVING THEIR PEOPLES
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To regain our freedom and control over our own destiny by restoring sovereignty
to the French people (monetary, legislative, territorial and economic sovereignty). To
achieve this, negotiations will be entered into with our European partners, followed by
a referendum on whether we should remain in the European Union. The aim is to arrive
at a European project that respects French independence, national sovereignties and
which serves the interests of the different people.
INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: TO GIVE THE PEOPLE A VOICE AGAIN
AND ESTABLISH A DEMOCRACY OF PROXIMITY
To organise a referendum with a view to revising the Constitution and making any
future revisions of the Constitution subject to a referendum. To widen the scope of
Article 11 of the Constitution.
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To reduce the number of Members of Parliament to 300 (from 577 today) and the
number of Senators to 200 (from 348 today).
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To create a genuine system of popular referendums, whereby a petition signed by
at least 500,000 voters will be sufficient to force a vote.
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To endorse only three levels of administration (instead of six currently):
municipalities, departments and the State. This reform will provide:
To enable all French people to be represented by applying proportional
representation to all elections. For the National Assembly, the proportional system
will include a winner’s bonus of 30% of the seats allocated to the winning list and a
threshold of 5% of the vote to obtain the first seat.
• simplification (elimination of duplication and a clear division of competencies);
• proximity (by giving more weight to elected officers known by the people, such as Mayors);
• savings (in particular on elected officers’ allowances and the expenses to run their
offices, etc).
These measures will rapidly reduce local taxes.
To enhance the role and status of the Mayors of small and medium-sized municipalities.
TO MAKE AGAIN FRANCE A COUNTRY OF FREEDOMS
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To guarantee freedom of speech and digital freedom by adding them to the
fundamental freedoms protected by the Constitution, whilst reinforcing the fight against
cyber-jihadism and paedophile crimes. At the same time, to simplify procedures
enabling victims to seek redress for defamation or insult.
To create a Constitutional Charter that will include the protection of the personal
data of French citizens, in particular through an obligation to store such data on
servers located on French soil.
To defend women’s rights: to combat Islamic fundamentalism, which has set back
their fundamental rights; to introduce a national plan for gender pay equality and
counter job and social insecurity.
To uphold freedom of association within the sole limits of the necessity of public
order and support the small cultural, sports, humanitarian, social and educational
voluntary bodies, etc, that sustain the life of every area of the country. To introduce
genuine trade union freedoms by abolishing the monopoly on closed shops and
enhancing trade union life by means of public oversight of union finances.
To guarantee the right to choose how to educate one’s children, whilst strictly
overseeing the compatibility of the teaching within private schools not contracted to
the State, with Republican values.
II - A FRANCE THAT IS SAFE
TO RESTORE REPUBLICAN ORDER AND THE RULE OF LAW
EVERYWHERE AND FOR EVERYONE
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To restore security by ensuring the protection of individual freedoms.
To provide a massive boost to the resources of the law enforcement agencies:
personnel (plan to recruit 15,000 police officers and gendarmes), equipment (modernisation
of equipment, police stations and gendarmeries, plus the adaptation of weapons available
to counter new threats), but also to boost morale and provide new legal authority (in
particular the presumption of self-defence) for police officers and gendarmes. To guarantee
the military status of the gendarmerie.
To refocus the police and the gendarmerie on their main task of maintaining law
and order by sparing them administrative and other irrelevant tasks.
To set up a plan to disarm the suburbs where guns are a problem and to reestablish the authority of the State in areas that have succumbed to lawlessness.
To target the 5,000 delinquent and criminal gang leaders identified by the Ministry of
the Interior. In order to prevent gangs reforming, to introduce, on top of the sentence
handed down by the courts, a civil injunction to ban gang members from returning to
their old place of residence.
To re-establish an inland intelligence service capable of gathering evidence on the
ground to combat criminal trafficking.
A FIRM AND FAST JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO CRIME
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To apply the principle of zero tolerance and put an end to undue leniency once
and for all by repealing lenient criminal laws (such as the Taubira Act), re-introducing
minimum sentences and ending automatic remission of sentences.
To combat juvenile delinquency by making parents accountable, by stopping payments
of benefits to the parents of repeat juvenile offenders in cases of manifestly deficient parenting.
To introduce a real life sentence without parole for the most serious crimes.
To create 40,000 extra prison places in 5 years.
To re-establish the automatic expulsion of foreign criminals and delinquents.
To sign bilateral agreements so that convicted foreigners can serve their prison
sentences in their country of origin.
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To attach the Prisons’ Department to the Ministry of the Interior and reinforce
intelligence gathering inside prisons.
To increase the number of Judges, in particular by means of external recruitment.
In order to break with the culture of excessive leniency, to abolish the ENM
(National School for the Judiciary ) and to create a joint training pathway for all legal
careers (with «application schools»).
TO RE-ESTABLISH REAL BORDERS THAT PROTECT US AND PUT
AN END TO UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION
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To restore national borders and leave the Schengen Area (specific arrangements will be put
in place for cross-border workers to facilitate their routine border crossing). To restore the jobs
cut in the Customs Service with the recruitment of 6,000 officers during the five-year term.
To make it impossible to legalise or naturalise undocumented foreigners. To make
their expulsion automatic and simpler.
To reduce legal immigration to an annual balance of 10,000. To end automatic
family reunification and regrouping as well as the automatic acquisition of French
nationality by marriage. To abolish policies that attract immigrants.
To abolish jus soli (right of the soil): it will only be possible to acquire French nationality
by filiation or naturalisation, the conditions for which will be tightened. To abolish dual
nationality for non-Europeans.
To return to the original spirit of the right of asylum which, furthermore, will only
be granted after the filing of an application in French Embassies or Consulates in the
countries of origin, or bordering countries.
TO ERADICATE TERRORISM
AND BREAK UP ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST NETWORKS
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To ban and dissolve organisations of any nature with ties to Islamic fundamentalists.
To expel all foreigners with ties to Islamic fundamentalism (in particular those with an
«S» intelligence file).
To close all extremist mosques identified by the Ministry of the Interior and ban foreign
funding of places of worship and their personnel. To ban all public funding (State, local
authorities, etc) of places of worship and religious activities.
To combat jihadi networks: stripping of French nationality, expulsion and banning
re-entry into the country for any person with dual nationality linked to a jihadi
organisation. To apply Article 411-4 of the Penal Code on passing intelligence to
the enemy and to place any individual with French nationality, with links to a foreign
organisation promoting hostile activities or aggression against France and the French
people, in preventive custody. To draw up a list of such organisations.
To restore the offence of «national indignity» for individuals guilty of crimes and
other offences relating to Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
To reinforce the human and technical resources of the domestic and foreign
intelligence services and to create a single counter-terrorist agency attached directly to
the Prime Minister and in charge of analysing the threat and of operational coordination.
III - A
FRANCE
THAT IS PROSPEROUS
A NEW PATRIOTIC MODEL IN FAVOUR OF EMPLOYMENT
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To implement a re-industrialisation plan as part of a process of cooperation between
industry, with the State acting as the strategist in order to give preference to the real
economy over speculative finance.
To support French businesses facing unfair foreign competition by introducing
intelligent protectionist measures and restoring a national currency, adapted to
our economy and able to boost our competitiveness.
In order to protect consumers and fair competition, to ban the importing and sale
of foreign goods that do not meet the standards imposed on French producers.
At the same time, to support «Made in France» by mandatory, clear and fair labelling,
stating the origin of goods and commodities sold in France.
To establish genuine economic patriotism by ridding ourselves of European
constraints and imposing an obligation to «buy French» on all public bodies, as
long as the difference in price is reasonable. To set aside a certain portion of public
orders for SMEs.
To abolish the “Posting of the Workers’ Directive in France”, as it creates
unacceptable and unfair competition. To introduce an additional tax on the hiring
of foreign nationals in order to guarantee an effective policy of national preference in
employment.
To protect strategic and growth sectors by controlling foreign investments that go
against the national interest by setting up an Economic Security Authority. To create,
under the authority of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (publicly-owned credit
institution), a sovereign fund with the dual mission of protecting enterprises from
vulture funds or hostile takeover bids and to acquire stakes in growth sectors.
To create a government department dedicated to economic transformation,
attached to the Ministry of Finance, in order to anticipate changes in working practices
due to new technologies (‘uberisation’, robotics, the sharing economy, etc). In cooperation
with the sectors concerned, to establish new regulations to preserve fair competition.
To anchor innovation in France by preventing companies which have received public
subsidies from being sold to foreign companies for a period of ten years. To promote
the strategic sectors of research and innovation, by increasing the tax deductibility of
donations. To increase the public research budget by 30% (to bring it to 1% of GDP)
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To create a Great Maritime and Overseas Ministry in order to make the most of
France’s maritime dimension and to develop a massive investment plan focused on
the «blue gold economy».
To sort out our public finances by putting an end to bad public spending (especially
spending on immigration and the European Union) and by combating social and tax
fraud. To end our dependency on the financial markets by allowing the Banque de
France to finance the Treasury once again.
TO SUPPORT COMPANIES
BY GIVING PREFERENCE TO THE REAL ECONOMY
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To reduce the complexity of the administrative and tax burden weighing on microenterprises and SMEs: a one-stop shop for the social, tax and administrative systems,
extending the TESE (enterprise service employment voucher) scheme to micro-enterprises,
replacing the arduous work account, which is inapplicable in its current form, with a new
scheme based on a personalised assessment by the occupational health service, which
will be rebuilt. The arduous nature of a job will be compensated for by an increase in
pension annuities.
To encourage companies to hire staff, to reduce the number of administrative obligations
linked to the 50-employee threshold and to merge the staff representative institutions for
companies with between 50 and 300 employees (excluding trade union representation)
into a single structure, which will retain the same attributes.
To reduce the social contributions paid by micro-enterprises and SMEs in a way
that is easy to understand and significant, by merging all the different social charges
relief schemes into one tapering scheme (the CICE (competitiveness and employment tax
credit) will be converted into a system for reducing charges and will be incorporated into
the new scheme). This reduction in charges will be made conditional on maintaining jobs
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To maintain the 15% reduced corporation tax rate for micro-enterprises and
SMEs and create an intermediate rate of 24% (instead of 33%) for SMEs.
To facilitate the transmission of companies by a total exemption from capital gains tax on
the sale of shares in SME-SMIs after seven years.
To oblige the State and local authorities to comply with payment deadlines by
applying truly imperative and automatic late payment penalties.
To free up access to credit for small and very small businesses with preferential
interest rates under the supervision of the Banque de France, in order to make finance
work for the real economy.
To halve the maximum interest rate (usury ceiling) on bank loans and overdrafts
(overdraft charges) for businesses and households.
To make France a land of innovation: to refocus Research Tax Credit on SMEs and startups, to channel a part of life insurance deposits (2%) into venture funds and encourage
large groups to set up their own investment funds to invest in innovative companies.
TO GUARANTEE THE WELFARE STATE
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To fix the legal retirement age at 60, with 40 years of contributions required to
receive a full pension.
To repeal the recent Labour Act (known as the El Khomri Act).
To increase progressively the upper limit on the dependants’ tax allowance, to
reinstate the widowed person’s allowance and to exempt the pension supplement
paid to the parents of large families from tax.
To introduce a genuine policy to boost the birth rate, which will be reserved for
French families, by reinstating universal family allowance and maintaining the cost-ofliving indexation. To reinstate the free sharing of parental leave between both parents.
To strengthen intergenerational solidarity by enabling each parent to transfer taxfree 100,000 Euros to each child every five years (instead of fifteen years currently)
and by increasing the upper limit on tax-free donations to grandchildren to 50,000
Euros, also every five years.
To create a «social shield» for the self-employed by offering them the option to join
the general welfare regime or to keep their specific regime after a total overhaul of the
organisation that runs it, the RSI, which will operate on the basis of quarterly selfdeclarations of income.
TO ACT TO BOOST PURCHASING POWER
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To raise the minimum old age pension (ASPA) everywhere in France, including in
the Overseas Territories, and to make it conditional upon holding French nationality
for a period of twenty years’ residence in France, which will also enable very small
pensions to be increased.
To introduce a Purchasing Power Bonus (Prime de Pouvoir d’Achat (PPA)) for
those on low incomes and small pensions (for incomes up to 1,500 Euros a month),
financed by a 3% social contribution on imports.
To reduce immediately the regulated prices of gas and electricity by 5%.
To secure French citizens’ deposits and savings by repealing the European Directive
on the single banking market and the provision of the Sapin II Act, which provides for
a levy or freeze on bank savings and life insurance policies in a situation where there
is a risk of a banking crisis. To maintain a variety of payment methods and the freedom
to choose between them.
To increase the sanctions against company directors guilty of anti-competitive
agreements or fraudulent activities, which amputate a part of consumers’
purchasing power. To freeze permits granted to open supermarkets and mail order
warehouses until an overall audit of mass retail’s land surface has been completed.
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To maintain the legal working week at 35 hours. To allow negotiations on the
extension of the working week exclusively at branch level and on the condition of full
wage compensation (ie 37 hours: paid 37; 39 hours: paid 39).
To exempt overtime from income tax and to maintain the increased rates.
IV - A FRANCE THAT IS FAIR
LET’S PROTECT FRENCH PEOPLE’S HEALTH 100%
To guarantee coverage by the Social Security system for all French people as well
as the reimbursement of all the risks covered by state health insurance. To secure its
long-term financing by simplifying the administration of the system, combating the chaotic
existing financial arrangements and investing in new digital tools to make lasting savings.
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To keep a maximum of local hospitals open while increasing the number of staff
in the public hospital system.
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To create a fifth branch of Social Security designed to enable every French person
to access healthcare and live with dignity.
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To raise the numerus clausus on access to healthcare studies to avoid the need
for a massive influx of foreign doctors, while allowing the replacement of the large
numbers of staff due to retire in the near future. To facilitate cooperation between
health professionals, by recognising the specific skills of each of them.
To combat «medical deserts» by introducing a requirement for trainee doctors
to spend a period in the zones affected, by enabling retired doctors to continue
working with reduced charges and by developing community health centres.
To support French start-ups, to modernise the health system.
To make savings by abolishing the state medical aid provided to undocumented
foreigners, by combating fraud (creation of a biometric healthcare card («Carte
Vitale») which will be combined with the identity card), by reducing the prices of
expensive medicines (by increasing the proportion of generic medicines used), by
developing the sale of reimbursable medicines by the unit (obliging pharmaceutical
companies to adapt their production lines).
To protect the complementary nature of the dual public and liberal healthcare
system. To protect the territorial coverage of independent healthcare professionals
(pharmacies, medical analysis laboratories, etc.).
To reorganise and clarify the role and obligations of the medical and food safety
agencies and to guarantee their independence.
TO MAKE THE TAX SYSTEM FAIRER
To guarantee fair taxation, by refusing to increase VAT and the CSG contribution
and maintaining the wealth tax (ISF).
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To reduce the income tax rate on the first three bands by 10%.
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To simplify the tax system by abolishing taxes that collect very little revenue.
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To abandon the introduction of pay-as-you-earn to protect people’s privacy and
avoid adding a further layer of administrative complexity to businesses’ obligations.
To combat effectively tax evasion, to preserve our social model by attacking tax
havens and creating a tax on business carried out in France by large groups and the
profits that they have diverted. To continue international tax cooperation to this end.
To refuse to award public contracts to multinationals which practise tax avoidance
and refuse to correct this situation.
To terminate the tax treaties with the Gulf States that grant inappropriate
privileges, which facilitate the taking over of the French economy by petrodollars and
which are contrary to the national interest.
TO ENABLE EVERYONE TO FIND THEIR PLACE
To reassert the value of manual work by setting up «streams of excellence» in
vocational education (gradual abolition of the comprehensive system at junior high
school level, authorisation of apprenticeships from age 14). To develop «second
chance» vocational and technology high schools for students that have dropped out
of the school system with no qualifications.
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For true social justice, to make general and vocational secondary schools responsible
for finding a work experience placement for every pupil.
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To extend the Adapted Military Service scheme to mainland France, on the same
lines as the scheme that operates in the Overseas Territories.
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To expand the «third competitive examination» scheme for the civil service and to
reserve it for over-45s who have at least eight years’ experience in the private sector.
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To set up a «first job» scheme under which companies which hire a young person
under the age of 21 for their first job will be exempted from employers’ charges for up
to two years.
To end the freeze on and then increase the «index point» that serves to calculate
civil service pay. To protect the status of the civil service. For reasons of equality
of treatment, to introduce a two-day waiting period for sick pay in both the public and
private sector.
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In the face of pressure from supranational authorities, to maintain the ban on
surrogacy and to limit the use of medically-assisted reproduction in favour of those
with sterility problems. To create a civil union (an improved version of the current
civil partnership (PACS)), which will replace the provisions of the Taubira Act (gay
marriage), with no retroactive effect.
To raise disability benefit (AAH), to increase the resources provided to Departmental
centres for the disabled (MDPHs) and to develop a worthy system of care for those
suffering from autism and autism spectrum disorders. The public authorities must
provide more aid to disabled citizens and their families.
To facilitate access to employment for disabled people, to reinforce the fight against
all forms of disability and health-related discrimination and to extend the «right to be
forgotten» to adults in remission from long-term illnesses, with a maximum period of
5 years. To impose an accessibility standard for the visually and hearing-impaired.
To launch a comprehensive audit of all children’s centres and care homes in order
to put an end to the abuses observed in some of them. To re-organise and improve
child welfare policies.
V - A FRANCE THAT IS PROUD
TO DEFEND FRENCH UNITY
AND THE NATIONAL IDENTITY
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To defend the French national identity, the values and traditions of French civilisation.
To write into the Constitution the defence and promotion of our historical and cultural
heritage.
To make it clear that holding French citizenship is a privilege for all French people
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To fly the French flag on public buildings at all times and to remove the European flag
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To raise war veterans’ pensions by reallocating available funding.
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To defend the French language. In particular to repeal the provisions of the Fioraso
Act, which allow the restriction of teaching in French in the universities
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To strengthen national unity by promoting the national narrative and refusing divisive
acts of repentance by the State.
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To promote the Republican notion of assimilation, a principle more demanding
than that of integration.
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To restore genuine equality and a meritocracy by refusing the principle of «positive
discrimination».
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by writing the principle of «national priority» into the Constitution.
To promote secularism and combat multiculturalism. To write the following
principle into the Constitution: «The Republic does not recognise any communities.»
To reinstate the secular state everywhere, to extend it to all public spaces and write it
into the Labour Code.
To defend the unity and integrity of the French territory by reasserting the
unbreakable ties between Metropolitan France and the Overseas Territories.
A FRANCE THAT TRANSMITS AND IS TRANSMITTED
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To guarantee the transmission of knowledge by reinforcing teaching of the basics
(French, history, arithmetic). To ensure primary schools spend half their teaching time
on teaching spoken and written French. To abolish «the teaching of the language and
culture of origin» (ELCO).
To make schools an «inviolable haven where the quarrels of men have no place»
(Jean Zay), therefore imposing not only secularism, but also neutrality and safety.
To re-establish the authority of and respect for the teacher and to introduce
school uniforms.
To reverse the reform of the school hours.
To re-establish genuine equality of opportunity by returning to the Republican
meritocracy.
In universities, to move from a system of selection by failure to one of selection
by success. To refuse the drawing of lots as a method of allocating places. To raise
scholarships for deserving students. To defend the French model of higher education,
which combines the complementary university and «grandes écoles» (specialist
engineering schools) systems.
To develop, significantly, sandwich courses and work training schemes
(apprenticeship contracts, «professionalism» contracts) in the trades, the public and
private sectors and to make vocational training more effective, less opaque and less
expensive.
A FRANCE THAT CREATES AND SHINES
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To reinforce the network of French primary and high schools around the world.
To develop popular sponsorship by setting up a dedicated digital platform.
To pass a heritage planning law to provide better support for the maintenance
and preservation of the nation’s heritage. To increase the budget allocated by 25%.
To put a stop to sales of national palaces and historic buildings to foreigners and
the private sector.
To launch a major national plan to set up courses (in high schools and universities)
in the art-and-craft trades throughout the country and to set up a national network
of arts incubators. To reinstate proper, general musical education in schools.
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To reform the Audiovisual Council (CSA), creating three new colleges: one
made up of representatives of the State, the second of professionals, the third of
representatives of civil society (associations of consumers, television viewers, etc.).
To clarify the status of intermittent entertainment industry workers by creating
a professional card, in order to maintain the existing regime whilst better monitoring
organisations that abuse the system.
To abolish the Hadopi internet law and start work on developing a global media
licence.
To create a «top levels sports person’s contract» for a renewable period of three
years which will enable amateur sportsmen and women, representing the Nation in
international competitions, to have a decent standard of living and devote themselves
entirely to their discipline.
To provide support for small clubs in order to keep as many French players as
possible in French professional clubs and combat the excessive influence of
money in professional sport. To take stronger measures to combat violence in
amateur sport and strictly impose the principles of secularism and neutrality in all
sports clubs.
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FRANCE
THAT IS POWERFUL
TO ENSURE FRANCE IS RESPECTED
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To leave the integrated military command of NATO so that France is not dragged
into wars that do not concern her.
To ensure France has an autonomous Defence capacity in every area.
To reconstitute a French industrial offering in all areas of Defence to meet the
needs of our army and guarantee our strategic independence.
To increase the Defence budget to 2% of GDP in my first year in office, gradually
increasing this to 3% by the end of the five-year term. This 2% minimum will be
written into the Constitution. This substantial effort will finance in particular:
• a second aircraft carrier to be called «Richelieu», indispensable if our carrier task force
is to maintain a permanent presence on the seas;
• an increase in military personnel (to return to the 2007 level; namely an extra
50,000 military personnel);
• the maintaining of our nuclear deterrent;
• a general increase in our military capacity (more planes, ships, armoured vehicles)
and the modernisation of equipment;
• the progressive reintroduction of national service (an obligatory three months, minimum).
TO MAKE FRANCE A MAJOR WORLD POWER AGAIN
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To commit France to the service of a multi-polar world based on the equality
of nations before the law, permanent consultation with them and respect for their
independence. To base our foreign policy on the principle of realism and to give France
back its role as a power of stability and balance.
To strengthen the ties between peoples who share the French language.
To implement a true policy of co-development with African countries focused
mainly on aid to develop primary education, to improve agricultural systems and to
reinforce defence and security.
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FRANCE
THAT IS SUSTAINABLE
FRANCE, AN AGRICULTURAL POWER PROVIDING
HEALTHY FOOD
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To apply the principle of economic patriotism to French agricultural produce in
order to support our farmers and fishermen immediately, in particular through public
contracts (State and local authorities).
To transform the Common Agricultural Policy into a French Agricultural Policy.
To guarantee the amounts of subsidies whose criteria are fixed by France and no
longer by the European Union, with the aim of saving and sustaining the French familyfarming model.
To refuse to enter into free trade agreements (TAFTA, CETA, Australia, New
Zealand, etc). To develop short food supply chains from the farm to the consumer,
by reorganising the industry.
To simplify daily life for farmers by stopping the explosion of administrative
standards and encouraging young farmers to take on farms, by offering tax
exemptions in the first few years.
To defend quality: in order to combat unfair competition, to ban the importing
of agricultural produce and foodstuffs that do not meet French production
standards in terms of food safety, animal welfare and the environment. To impose
total traceability of geographical origin and place of processing on food labels, in
order to guarantee consumers have full, clear information.
To promote agricultural exports, in particular by supporting quality labelling.
THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY TRANSITION:
FRANCE MUST AIM FOR EXCELLENCE
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To preserve the environment, to break with the economic model based on the
unchecked globalisation of trade and on social, health and environmental dumping;
true ecology consists of producing and consuming and then recycling/reprocessing
locally.
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In order to combat fuel poverty and have a direct impact on French people’s
purchasing power, to make the insulation of homes a budgetary priority during
my presidential term, because the cheapest energy is the energy that we do not
consume.
To develop massively the French renewable energy sector (solar, bio-gas, wood,
etc), thanks to intelligent protectionism, economic patriotism, public and private
investment and the orders placed by EDF. To order an immediate moratorium on wind
power.
To maintain, modernise and secure the French nuclear industry, to start the Great
Refit and keep EDF under State control, by giving it a genuine public service mission
once again. To refuse the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant
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To support a French hydrogen (clean energy) industry, by providing State support
for research and development, in order to reduce our oil dependence.
To ban fracking for as long as satisfactory environmental and health safety
conditions are not guaranteed, and to apply the precautionary principle by
banning GMOs.
To make animal protection a national priority. To defend animal welfare by banning
slaughtering without pre-stunning and replacing animal testing, wherever possible. To
prevent the opening of factory farms, otherwise known as «farms with a thousand cows».
GUARANTEE EQUALITY EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY
AND IMPROVE ACCESS TO HOUSING
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To guarantee equal access to public services (tax office, post office, gendarmerie,
water, healthcare, transport, local hospitals and community health centres, etc)
throughout the land and in particular in rural areas. The railway privatisation/
liberalisation, pursued by the European Union, will be refused. La Poste and the SNCF
will remain in public hands.
To group together in a single Ministry: territorial development, transport and
housing. To rebalance policies that favour the cities with a view to diverting more
attention to rural and depopulated areas.
To make it easier to buy a home by reinforcing assisted loan schemes and
improving the terms under which social housing tenants can buy their homes, to
reach the stage where 1% of the public housing stock is sold every year. To reduce
transfer duty by 10%.
To reduce households’ spending on housing by implementing a major home building
and renovation plan, by reducing housing tax for the lowest incomes and freezing
increases, and by making housing benefit (APL) more stable over time (assets owned
will no longer be taken into account in its calculation). To set up a young people’s
housing protection scheme: to launch an extensive building programme of student
accommodation and to increase housing benefit for the under 27s by 25%, from my
first year in office.
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To give French nationals priority in the allocation of social housing, without any
retroactive effect, and to allocate housing first to those who need it most. To
apply the right to quiet enjoyment, on pain of the cancellation of the disturber’s lease.
To rationalise and simplify the urban planning and construction regulations in
order to free up the housing market. To guarantee the preservation of the environment
and protected natural areas (coastline, mountains, etc).
To support the effort to invest in infrastructure, in particular rural areas (broadband
and mobile phone coverage, roads, etc) and to renationalise the motorway
operators, thereby returning to the French people an asset they financed and from
which they have been robbed; more generally, to refuse the sale of strategic assets
belonging to the public authorities.