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Jean-Luc Mélenchon has announced an election platform for France’s presidential election, scheduled for April 2027, built around sweeping economic and political changes. Polls in late October put him at around 18% of first-round voting intentions, compared with 35% for Marine Le Pen, and suggest he would lose to her in the runoff. Economically, he proposes nationalizing motorways and airports, expanding state control over banks and strategic industries, imposing price controls on food, energy and fuel, lowering the retirement age to 60, and converting €600 billion in debt held by the European Central Bank into interest-free loans that would never be repaid. The article warns that this would entail heavy spending and tax increases, as France’s deficit is expected to reach 5.4% of GDP. His proposals also include a new constitution, proportional representation, expanded use of referendums and lowering the voting age to 16, as well as a gradual phaseout of nuclear power in favor of renewables. In foreign policy, he puts the war in Gaza and settlement activity in the West Bank among his priorities, and calls for a non-aligned French policy and a diplomatic framework for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian forces.
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