The National Rally’s presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, was alarmed on Wednesday by the “record rates” of French debt, the highest in almost twenty years, and promised to “clean out the Augean stables” of public finances if she is elected to the Elysée.
“The rates at which France borrows have reached sad records since the 2008 financial crisis,” the head of the RN underlined on
For her part, Ms. Le Pen sees in it “the relentless record of ten years of macronism” and points in particular to the responsibility of the Head of State and his former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, also a declared candidate for the Elysée, both accused of having written “bad checks for which we must now pay the consequences”. “It is high time to clean out the Augean stables that the nation’s accounts have become! », Adds the leader of the nationalist camp, who prides herself on having “the courage and determination” to carry out this task.
Another candidate declared for the Elysée, but much lower in the polls, David Lisnard noted on X that this year “the interest on the debt will cost the French more than the national education budget”. The liberal right-wing contender (under the colors of his New Energy party) advocates “a real intervention plan” to “totally review the model of the welfare state”, but also “manage the state in project mode, as we do in a company”. Because, he insists, “the debt is not virtual” and we cannot “renew it without consequences”.
An indirect allusion to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s speech, which suggests canceling the share of debt held by the Bank of France, which according to him could be “put on fire” because “no one will ever realize that it has disappeared”.
