The New Popular Front will improve ordinary people’s lives – and it’s an effective, economically sound alternative to the far right, say authors Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty
The New Popular Front will improve ordinary people’s lives – and it’s an effective, economically sound alternative to the far rightfor the far right. Next Sunday, 7 July, the National Rally and its allies could potentially make it to power. Not just with a relative majority, but – and there is a significant probability of this – with an outright one.
The NFP is following a similar path today, with ambitious policies to improve the purchasing power of poor and lower-middle-class people. These reforms include a substantial increase in the minimum wage, wages indexed to prices and free school lunches. Most importantly the NFP wants to prioritise investment in the future by increasing public spending on infrastructure – throughout the country, including in isolated rural areas – as well as in health, education and research.
Perhaps more importantly, this programme will allow the left to look towards winning back votes in rural areas and smaller cities where people have gradually turned to the far right.
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