Marine Le Pen’s party has pledged to boost spending power, slash immigration and restore law and order
RN’s president, Jordan Bardella, says he will not take up the post of prime minister unless his party wins an absolute majority.RN’s president, Jordan Bardella, says he will not take up the post of prime minister unless his party wins an absolute majority.
Accurate seat forecasts are difficult because the outcome depends on second-round results in France’s 577 constituencies, many of which could be three-way races and affected by tactical alliances and withdrawals aimed at blocking the far right. But the party remains vague about the cost of its promises, which include cutting VAT on all energy and, longer term, abolishing Macron’s pension reform to return the state pension age to between 60 and 62 and exempting all under-30s from income tax.
The RN president dismissed as “utterly false” reports in French media that as many as 100 RN candidates standing in the election had been found to have made “racist, antisemitic and homophobic comments” in the past.
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