Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Wealth tax restored

Restore and strengthen the wealth tax (ISF), with a climate component that taxes big polluters.

Zucman tax on billionaires

Introduce a minimum tax of 2% on the wealth of billionaires (Zucman tax).

Income tax with 14 brackets

Make income tax more progressive, with 14 brackets instead of 5.

End of the flat tax

Abolish the single flat-rate levy on capital income (flat tax) and tax capital income like income from work.

Maximum inheritance of €12 million

Raise inheritance tax on the largest estates and cap what a person can inherit over a lifetime at €12 million.

Freezing debt held by the ECB

Freeze or cancel repayment of the share of French public debt held by the European Central Bank.

Health and education indicators

Complement gross domestic product with qualitative indicators of health, education and pay equality.

A public banking group

Create a public banking group to finance investment in ecological planning.

Redirect public finance toward investment needed in France and stop supporting foreign funds buying French businesses.

Public compensation for looted businesses

Provide public compensation to shopkeepers whose businesses were affected by the October 2026 riots.

Temporary nationalization of Fonderie de Bretagne

Temporarily nationalize Fonderie de Bretagne to preserve the site, factory and jobs, as requested in October 2026.

Plan-linked aid for small businesses

Make aid to small businesses and the social and solidarity economy conditional on participation in planning goals.

Public artificial intelligence center

Create a public artificial intelligence center to ensure French control over decisions in this field.

Protecting the CNES budget

Protect the budget of France’s national space agency CNES for public research.

Recruiting 400,000 farmers

Recruit 400,000 farmers and strengthen their training to develop organic farming.

An effective 35-hour week, and 32 hours in arduous jobs

Restore the 35-hour legal working week with higher overtime pay, and move to 32 hours in arduous and night jobs.

Overtime would be paid 25% more for the first four hours and 50% more beyond. The 32-hour week would be extended to other jobs through collective bargaining.

A sixth week of paid leave

Give every employee a sixth week of paid leave.

Employment presumption for platform workers

Transpose the European directive to apply a presumption of employment to platform workers.

Ending posted worker status

End posted worker status and require social contributions to be paid in France for people working there.

Representation for small employers

Change employer representation in negotiations to include small employers and those in the social and solidarity economy.

Minimum wage at €1,600 net

Immediately raise the minimum wage to €1,600 net a month and index wages to inflation.

Immediately convene annual wage negotiations and automatically index wages to the cost of living.

Pay gap capped at 1 to 20

Set a maximum wage that limits the gap between the lowest and highest pay in a company to 1 to 20.

Lower VAT on essential goods

Cut VAT on essential goods, paid for by a "luxury VAT".

Freezing prices and profit margins

Freeze prices and profit margins to address the cost of living, including bringing fuel prices down to €1.70 per liter by capping refiners’ margins.

Retirement at 60

Repeal the 2023 reform and restore full-rate retirement at 60 after 40 years of contributions.

Minimum pension at the minimum wage

Raise every pension for a full career to at least the minimum wage, and the old-age minimum to the poverty line.

Repeal of the unemployment insurance reforms

Repeal the unemployment insurance reforms made since 2017 and compensate jobseekers based on their last wages, from their first day of work.

State medical aid kept

Guarantee access to state medical aid (AME) for undocumented foreigners.

"100% Social Security" health coverage

Reimburse 100% of prescribed care by merging complementary health insurers into Social Security.

Regulating where doctors set up practice

Regulate where doctors set up practice, increase places in medical schools and create a public network of health centers to fight medical deserts.

Vocational pathway from CAP to a bachelor’s degree

Create a vocational education pathway from the CAP vocational qualification to a vocational bachelor’s degree.

Recruiting education staff

Create the necessary teaching posts and recruit education staff, health professionals and psychologists in schools.

Abolishing Parcoursup

Abolish Parcoursup.

€10 billion for school and university students

Allocate €10 billion in the budget to address demands made by high school and university students in October 2026.

Renovating school buildings

Renovate school buildings to improve learning conditions.

Boarding facilities for construction students

Create more boarding facilities near or within vocational high schools specializing in construction trades.

Training 300,000 construction workers

Train 300,000 skilled workers to meet construction and renovation needs.

Rent control everywhere

Cap rents across the whole country, and lower them in big cities.

200,000 public homes a year

Build 200,000 public homes a year for five years, to the highest environmental standards.

Target a total of 400,000 new homes per year across all categories and 700,000 thermal renovations annually.

Social housing quota raised to 30%

Raise the social housing quota that the SRU law imposes on towns to 30%, and toughen penalties for towns that do not meet it.

Mandatory renovation of energy-inefficient homes before renting

Require energy-inefficient homes to be renovated before they can be rented out.

Short-term rentals capped at 60 days

Cap Airbnb-style short-term rentals at 60 days a year and remove their tax advantage.

Rent freeze during a social emergency

Immediately freeze rents under a social emergency regime.

Nuclear phase-out

Phase out nuclear power by dropping the EPR reactor projects and planning the dismantling of power plants.

100% renewable energy by 2050

Plan the move to 100% renewable energy by 2050, through energy sufficiency and efficiency.

Regulated prices and renationalized EDF and Engie

Bring back regulated energy prices based on production costs and renationalize EDF and Engie in a public energy group.

Insulating 700,000 homes a year

Insulate at least 700,000 homes a year.

Inalienable common goods

Protect water, air and biodiversity as inalienable common goods belonging to humanity and excluded from private ownership.

Producer responsibility at end of life

Make producers responsible for processing obsolete products to develop the circular economy and reduce planned obsolescence.

Public collection of construction waste

Give ecological regions responsibility for construction waste collection points to expand recycling.

Ecological emergency regime

Create an ecological emergency regime to respond to unexpected extreme climate events.

Satellites for climate forecasting

Increase satellite capacity to forecast the effects of climate change.

Cannabis legalization

Legalize recreational cannabis under a state monopoly on its production and sale.

Specialized public order policing

Assign public order policing to professionals specialized in that mission.

Banning mutilating weapons at protests

Ban mutilating weapons in public order policing, including dispersal grenades, stun guns and rubber-bullet launchers.

Banning vehicle and mounted charges

Ban charges against demonstrators using cars, motorcycles or horses.

Repealing the Cazeneuve law

Repeal the Cazeneuve law on police use of firearms in cases of refusal to comply.

Binding limits on prison population

End prison overcrowding with a binding mechanism that regulates the number of inmates.

Regularisations and a ten-year residence permit

Make visas easier to get, regularize workers, students and parents of schoolchildren, and make the ten-year residence permit the standard permit.

Repeal of the latest asylum and immigration laws

Repeal the latest asylum and immigration laws and fully guarantee the right of asylum.

Gender recognition by declaration

Simplify gender recognition through a person’s own declaration.

A constituent assembly for a 6th Republic

Call a constituent assembly by referendum to write the Constitution of a 6th Republic, which would then be put to a referendum.

Ending senior officials’ revolving doors

End senior civil servants’ revolving-door moves into the private sector.

Social emergency regime

Create a social emergency regime to temporarily suspend certain deadlines and immediately implement price and margin freezes and wage measures.

Citizens’ initiative referendum

Introduce a citizens’ initiative referendum.

Recall referendum for elected officials

Allow citizens to recall any elected official through a referendum.

Voting age of 16

Lower the voting age to 16.

Independence-association for New Caledonia

Support New Caledonia’s independence and offer association if its freely chosen government wishes.

Creating ecological regions

Create ecological regions defined by ecological features, including river catchments, responsible for water, air, soil, health and transport.

Vetoing free trade agreements

Use France's veto against any new free trade agreement, including the one with Mercosur.

A conditional contribution to the EU budget

Make France's contribution to the EU budget conditional.

Disobeying EU rules

Stop applying the EU rules considered incompatible with the program, including budget and competition rules, and put the Constitution above EU law.

Leaving NATO

Leave NATO's integrated command immediately, then leave the organization itself in stages.

Global AI oversight authority

Create an international authority to oversee the development of artificial intelligence.

Moratorium on energy infrastructure strikes

Support a moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure in the war in Ukraine.

Preserving France’s UN seat

Preserve France’s own seat at the United Nations and its Security Council.

Withdrawal from the Artemis Accords

Withdraw France from the Artemis Accords on space exploration.

Ratifying the Moon Treaty

Propose parliamentary ratification of the 1979 Moon Treaty prohibiting appropriation by a state.

A public arms industry

Create a public arms group and bring privatized arms manufacturers back into the public sector.

Opting out of EU defense

Suspend France's participation in EU defense programs and oppose an EU defense commissioner.

Exploring alternatives to nuclear deterrence

Revive multilateral nuclear disarmament and create a commission on future deterrence to study alternatives to nuclear weapons.

Sovereignty over defense software

Replace certain foreign software used by the Defense Ministry to regain digital sovereignty.

Opposing French troops in Saudi Arabia

Oppose deploying French military assets in Saudi Arabia in the war theater described in September 2026.

French aircraft carrier in the Caribbean

Send the aircraft carrier to the French Caribbean to protect French sovereignty and reassure residents against the threats described in September 2026.