Jean-Luc Mélenchon
State, institutions and administration
16 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 2 · Campaign proposal or statement : 14
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Increase public-sector pay by 10%.
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Reverse public-service budget cuts since 2026 and index their 2027 budgets to inflation.
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Cost reversal of cuts since 2026 and inflation indexation of affected public-service budgets for 2027 at €7 billion.
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Abolish metropolitan structures created by laws concentrating local powers, restore municipalities' freedom to associate and reject forced municipal mergers.
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Reduce concentrated prefectural powers and restore autonomous capacity to local branches of state administration.
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Rebalance the general operating grant to reduce territorial inequality and index it to inflation.
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Increase rural capital grants and establish a municipal fund supporting staff recruitment and improved pay/status.
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Provide free public technical expertise to small municipalities, protect architecture/planning advisory councils from commercialisation and restore free processing of building permits.
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Strengthen local elected officials' status through preserved social and pension rights, accessible continuing training and protection from mandate-related violence, threats and pressure.
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Align local elected officials' allowances with actual workload and responsibilities and require gender parity in municipal and intermunicipal executives without exceptions.
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Expand citizen involvement in designing and implementing local policy, seeking broad and diverse participation.
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Replace regions with ecological regions defined by watersheds, coastlines and mountain ranges to organise ecological planning and democratic resource control.
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Guarantee association subsidies and generalise multiyear agreements instead of competitive project-call funding.
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Give departments resources to organise equal access to essential services and convene a national rural consultation.
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Reopen counters, halt closures and redeploy postal, rail, health, school, justice and treasury services; develop confidential mobile services for isolated populations.
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Improve doctoral graduates' integration into public service and require a doctorate for scientific-policy leadership in universities and public scientific institutions.
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