Thursday, March 2, 2017

Macron takes aim at lawmakers, pensions in mould-breaking manifesto

By Michel Rose and Emmanuel Jarry | PARIS

Presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron said he would root out inequalities in France’s pension system, sell down government stakes in major firms and downsize parliament, as he unveiled a manifesto to set him apart from traditionalists.

Standing as an independent centrist, Macron is tipped by opinion polls to defeat far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a run-off vote in May.

“The society I want will be both free of constraints and blockages and protective of the weakest,” Macron said in the program, seen by Reuters and presented on Thursday following



source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/02/macron-takes-aim-at-lawmakers-pensions-in-mould-breaking-manifesto/

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