David Lisnard

Public spending cut by 8 GDP points

Cut public spending by 8 points of GDP over ten years.

Focus cuts in particular on social spending and central government operating costs.

Redirecting insurance tax to emergency services

Redirect to departments a share of insurance contract tax allocated to family benefits to fund fire services, without creating an additional tax.

An operating-budget golden rule

Introduce a golden rule limiting operating deficits.

Abolishing production taxes

Abolish several production taxes, including the C3S and the CVAE, and reform inheritance tax on businesses.

Suspending mandatory electronic invoicing

Suspend the electronic invoicing requirement scheduled for September 1, 2026.

A single employment contract

Merge permanent and fixed-term contracts into a single employment contract for new jobs, with severance pay that grows over time.

Voluntary higher-paid work on May 1

Allow people who wish to work on May 1 to do so with higher pay.

Net pay instead of meal vouchers

Replace meal vouchers with higher net pay, including through lower social contributions, freely usable by employees.

Retirement at 65

Raise the legal retirement age to 65.

Moving to funded pensions

Keep a minimum pay-as-you-go pension for everyone from 65, with an old-age minimum of €1,000 a month, and move all other schemes to funded pensions.

Deindexing the highest pensions

Remove inflation indexing for the highest retirement pensions, starting the transition in May 2027.

Converging pension systems

Bring public and private pension systems into alignment, starting the transition in May 2027.

Ending special pension schemes

End special pension schemes, starting the transition in May 2027.

Welfare conditional on lawful behavior

Make welfare benefits conditional on compliance with society’s rules by recipients and minors in their care.

Protecting children through care risk separation

Separate threatened children from dangerous young people in child protection facilities, with continuous supervision and named decision-maker accountability.

State medical aid replaced by emergency aid

Abolish state medical aid and replace it with emergency aid.

Reimbursements adjusted to the number of doctors

Reimburse medical care better in underserved areas than in saturated ones, and set up multidisciplinary health centers in every canton.

Twice as many medical students

Double the number of medical students by 2030 and abolish the regional health agencies.

Mayors chairing hospital boards

Return the chairmanship of hospital governing boards to mayors.

Simpler hospital billing

Simplify coding and procedures for activity-based hospital payment.

Broader allied health professionals’ powers

Expand allied health professionals’ powers, recognize their prescribing and independent follow-up roles, and allow direct access where their competence warrants it.

Allied health pay based on responsibilities

Raise allied health professionals’ pay according to experience, responsibilities and their role in patient care.

Local health planning by prefects and elected officials

Give prefects and elected officials responsibility for local health organization after abolishing regional health agencies.

Abolishing school catchment areas

Abolish school catchment areas so families can choose their school.

Make public funding follow parents’ choice.

Teachers' pay up 20%

Raise teachers' pay by 20% over five years, in exchange for reorganizing their job.

Early identification and support for youth

Provide early educational, psychological and disciplinary support for young people at risk or posing a risk, while supporting teachers.

Rebuilding underground resource skills training

Rebuild training pathways for drillers, geologists and mining engineers.

School heads choosing their teaching staff

Allow school heads to hire their own teaching staff.

Simpler project authorizations

Simplify standard project authorization rules, including building permits, by extending procedures inspired by Notre-Dame and the Olympics to public and private project sponsors.

Stopping scattered development near forests

Stop scattered development at the interface between housing and forests.

Evicting criminal social housing tenants

Systematically evict established traffickers and other repeat offenders from social housing from 2027.

Suspending energy savings certificates on fuel

Suspend the energy savings certificate requirement on motor fuels for six months.

Use the six-month suspension to audit certificate stocks, costs and effectiveness before deciding on the scheme’s future.

Suspending the AO10 offshore wind tender

Suspend the AO10 offshore wind tender, with no award before the presidential election and no contract without debate and publication of its full cost.

Halving energy project lead times

Halve the time between decisions and commissioning for energy projects by speeding up authorizations and addressing appeals earlier.

Reactor life extensions and new reactors

Prioritize extending existing reactor lifetimes and new EPR nuclear reactors and small modular reactors.

Developing France’s underground resources

Develop exploration and use of France’s underground resources, including natural hydrogen, geothermal energy, and mineral and energy resources.

Replacing the precautionary principle with a responsibility principle

Replace the constitutional precautionary principle with a principle of responsibility.

Legal certainty for vegetation clearing

Enshrine a presumption of compliance for vegetation clearing in law to give owners certainty under species protection rules.

Insurance linked to clearing compliance

Link insurance premiums and deductibles to compliance with vegetation clearing requirements.

Opposing mandatory plastic bottle deposits

Oppose mandatory deposits on plastic bottles and retain local sorting systems run by local governments.

Cooling buildings open to the public

Install air conditioning in buildings open to the public, including hospitals, schools, care homes, stations and museums.

Abolishing low-emission zones

Abolish low-emission zones through legislation.

Armed municipal police

Allow willing towns to arm their municipal police and give it access to police files.

Earlier police intervention

Change police deployment doctrine to intervene as early and forcefully as possible during crises.

More police officers on the ground

Reduce police bureaucracy and raise security forces’ presence on the ground to at least 50%.

Refusing jihadist repatriation

Refuse to repatriate jihadists who took up arms against France.

Deprivation of citizenship for jihadists

Apply deprivation of citizenship to jihadists whenever the law allows.

Shared departmental fire prevention expertise

Generalize shared technical expertise at department level to help mayors prevent wildfires.

Water storage for firefighting

Launch a multi-year water storage plan for firefighting and reduce the use of drinking water.

Criminal majority at 16

Lower the age of criminal majority to 16 and reverse the presumption of reduced responsibility for minors from 13.

Remove reduced sentencing on grounds of age for crimes involving bloodshed.

More prison places

Increase the number of prison places.

Closed institutions for dangerous minors

Create closed institutions with strict discipline and education for the most dangerous minors, with permanent supervision and no phones.

Parental liability for juvenile offenses

Hold parents legally and financially accountable for offenses committed by minors in their care.

National indignity for jihadists

Restore the offense of national indignity for jihadists who took up arms against France.

Full repayment for damage to public property

Systematically require perpetrators of damage to fully reimburse local governments for repairs.

Residence permits cut eightfold

Cut the number of residence permits issued eightfold.

Asylum claims handled in consulates

Handle asylum claims in French consulates abroad.

Skilled labor quotas

Set quotas for skilled labor.

Family reunification subject to income and integration tests

Make family reunification subject to income criteria and integration tests.

Non-contributory benefits after five years of residence

Reserve non-contributory benefits for foreigners who have been legal residents for at least five years.

Immigration detention extended to 24 months

Build more detention centers and extend immigration detention to 24 months.

Banning the Muslim Brotherhood

Ban the Muslim Brotherhood, control private schools outside the state contract and ban the headscarf at university.

Samuel Paty in the Panthéon

Honor Samuel Paty in the Panthéon.

Abolishing the CESE

Abolish the Economic, Social and Environmental Council.

Ending political-administrative patronage

End political-administrative patronage in appointments to public finance oversight institutions.

Deploying AI in public services

Deploy artificial intelligence in public services, including education, justice, health and prefectures, using public procurement.

State human resources director

Appoint a state human resources director upon taking office.

Referendum on immigration

Put control of immigration to a referendum.

Moratorium on local government rules

Immediately halt new rules imposed on local governments and remove burdensome rules and prior controls considered unnecessary.

Local financial and tax autonomy

Give local governments financial and tax autonomy based on accountability to residents.

Statutory definition of local self-government

Clearly define local self-government in law and apply subsidiarity to limit state encroachment.

National law first on migration

Write the primacy of national law on migration into the Constitution, so that contrary rulings of the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights cannot be applied.

Renewing land combat capabilities

Renew land combat capabilities through a system combining armored vehicles, drones, robotics, artificial intelligence and data capabilities.

Sovereign air combat system

Fund a national air combat system combining the Rafale F5, a stealth drone, sensors and a combat data network, integrated with nuclear deterrence.