Faced with "the anti-capitalist emergency", his slogan, the ex-worker wants the expropriation of large companies, starting with the large groups in the pharmaceutical industry, and multinationals "which plunder wealth in the four corners of the world. ".
Wanting to be "ecosocialist", Philippe Poutou wants to initiate a "real ecological transition" thanks to the socialization of "key sectors of the economy" such as that of energy and its heavyweights - EDF, among others.
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For him, capitalism is a "dangerous scam".
In order to "save jobs", he intends to prohibit dismissal and plans to switch to the 4-day week, giving workers more time to "take care of themselves and their loved ones".
In addition to the return to peasant agriculture "liberated from productivism", he gives himself 10 years to get out of nuclear power and fossil fuels and carries the bold objective of 100% renewable energies by 2050.
Like his far-left rival Nathalie Arthaud (Lutte Ouvrière), the CGT trade unionist presents himself as an "internationalist", defending the total opening of the borders of France and beyond, for free settlement and movement. immigrants.
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On island status, and in particular that of Corsica, the NPA candidate recently declared that he was "for the right of peoples to self-determination", pleading "the recognition of a status, a language, culture and law" for these territories.
Other notable measures in his program: the expropriation of private clinics with their integration into public hospitals, the regularization of all undocumented migrants, the disarmament of the police and the exit from NATO.
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