Pensions, education, security: the main lines of the program that Macron will present on Thursday

The president-candidate must unveil Thursday afternoon the main measures of his political program for the presidential election. After the draft, place for the complete presentation. Emmanuel Macron, candidate for re-election for the presidency of the Republic, will unveil Thursday afternoon the program he intends to apply in the event of a second term at the Élysée. For several weeks, the now president-candidate and his entourage have distilled many measures which will be confirmed and developed during a press conference which will begin with 45 minutes – 1 hour of introductory remarks. This will be held at the Docks de Paris, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). The content of the program presented will then be the subject of a twenty-page booklet sent to the French in the coming days. State will reconsider in particular its intention to push back the legal retirement age to 65 years. Social measure already criticized by the opposition and the social partners but which the candidate of LaREM defended on Monday evening. “Given the fact that we are living longer and longer, and that is good, we must shift the legal age and pass it 65”, he explained to our colleagues from TF1, reaffirming in passing his ambition to put an end to special regimes. The reform of the RSA (revenu de solidarité active) will also be specified: Emmanuel Macron wishes a hardening at its access, conditioning it to a minimum of activity. “The logic we carry is that of saying that duties open up rights, and not the other way around. It is not rights that open up duties”, explained Gabriel Attal on Tuesday on France 2. the TV fee and food check Another proposal from the candidate La République en Marche: the tripling of the ceiling of the “Macron” bonus, paid by the employer without social security contributions or taxes and which can go up to 1000 euros for employees earning less than three times the Smic. He also wants to create the food voucher, one of the proposals of the Citizen’s Climate Convention. An aid scheme which would be allocated to disadvantaged people but for which the precise list of beneficiaries is still unknown. Emmanuel Macron will also have to detail his plan to abolish the audiovisual license fee which amounted to 138 euros in 2021 in metropolitan France and 88 euros overseas. A deletion that he described as “consistent with the abolition of the housing tax” which is planned for 2023.15 billion euros over five years for security On the education side, the president-candidate wants a return of mathematics in the common core in high school but also the introduction of 30 minutes of daily sport for primary school students. In addition, he would like the Highway Code to be learned from 5th grade and for companies to be more present in vocational high schools. Finally, Emmanuel Macron should return to the orientation and programming bill which provides an additional 15 billion over five years for the budget of the Ministry of the Interior. This law should in particular make it possible to double the police force on the ground but also to increase investments in cybersecurity. A reform which, as for many others, should be accompanied each time by a “great permanent debate” with the French.Thomas Soulié, Agathe Lambret with Hugues Garnier