Defending a social-democratic program which wants to restore "two pillars" which are for her "school" and "health", Anne Hidalgo also highlights "the necessary ecological transition", which "must not be done to the detriment of the middle and popular classes", and promises "more democracy", in particular by setting up the citizens' initiative referendum.

It figures the cost of its program at 50 billion per year.

“Revaluing work at its fair remuneration”:

- increase of the minimum wage by 15%

- repeal of the unemployment insurance reform

- penalties for companies that do not respect equal pay for women and men

Anne Hidalgo AFP

- introduction of a maximum difference of 1 to 20 between the lowest and highest salaries in a company

- presumption of employment for workers on digital platforms

- extension of paternity leave to sixteen weeks, six of which are compulsory

Education and health:

- Teachers' remuneration gradually raised to the level of executives, starting with the beginning of their careers

- Removal of ParcourSup

- Mixed plan to put an end to college-ghettos

- End of the "hospital-company" and of the accounting control of health expenditure

Anne Hidalgo during a "grand oral" organized by several media, March 28, 2022 in Paris Thomas COEX AFP

- Train up to 15,000 new doctors per year, 1,250 midwives, 25,000 nurses and caregivers

- Creation of a year of professionalization as a doctor-assistant in the medical deserts at the end of the course of the interns

Purchasing power and "just ecology"

- Minimum youth for young people over 18, subject to means

- Capital endowment of 5,000 euros for each new major

- Temporary reduction in VAT on fuels

- Energy renovation of housing based on a new device: no costs to be advanced at the time of the work

- Complementary housing allowance so that no household spends more than a third of its income on housing

- Build 150,000 social housing units per year

- Generalized rent control in tight areas

Pensions and public services

- Maintenance of the legal retirement age at 62, restoration of hardship criteria, minimum old age at 1,000 euros

- Public support service for the loss of autonomy

- Public service for early childhood, increase the supply of places in crèches to 600,000 in ten years

- New end-of-life law

- Full-fledged Ministry of Women's Rights, endowed with one billion euros

- Recruitment plan for magistrates, clerks and social workers

The campaign poster of the PS presidential candidate and mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, on March 28, 2022 in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS AFP

Ecology

- Creation of a Solidarity Tax on Wealth Climate and Biodiversity

- Inclusion in the Constitution of the obligation to fight against global warming

- Recognition of the crime of ecocide

- Public aid to companies based on social and environmental criteria

- Objective of 100% renewable energies, no hasty exit from nuclear power, no construction of new reactors

- One million additional electrical terminals

- 50% reduction in CO2 emissions from the industrial sector by 2035 compared to 2015, with a plan to relocate economic activities

- policy for the installation of young farmers, with a law for the protection of agricultural land.

Democracy:

- Introduce a dose of proportionality in the legislative elections and organize this election before the presidential election.

- Creation of a citizens' initiative referendum

- Right to vote at 16, right to vote for foreigners in local elections, taking into account the blank vote

Europe:

- Establishment of a Europe of defense

- End of the stability and growth pact in favor of a progress pact

- Reform of the Dublin system to guarantee efficient procedures and a dignified reception of migrants

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