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Multiple parties are jockeying for position in the aftermath of France's seismic snap election. The leftist New Popular Front (NPF) insists its ideas should be implemented.

France's left wing New Popular Front (NPF) - now the largest group in parliament - has called for a prime minister who will implement its ideas including a new wealth tax and petrol price controls.

The leftist alliance secured the most seats in the recent French elections but fell short of the 289 needed for a majority in the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament.

President Emmanuel Macron's Together bloc came in second and Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party finished third.

France's parties are now jockeying for position and it's unclear exactly how things will shake out, but the NPF has insisted it will implement its radical set of ideas.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 214 points 1 month ago

a new 90% tax on any annual income above €400,000

Lmao. Probably not gonna happen but based af

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Worked fine in America during it's "great" days that all these Trump voters seem to yearn for

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Funny how they want to 'mAkE aMeRiCa GrEaT aGaIn' but don't want any of the policies that made America great, just the shitty racist ones that made life awful for non-white males. I'm just waiting for them to further limit it by land holding or wealth at some point..... Really take us back to when we were 'really great'

[-] bitflag@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That was only on earned income and with a starting point so high that at some point only one person ever reached it.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That was before the explosion of jet travel. Now the rich fly around in their private jets to operate their businesses all over the world. They take advantage of the fact that governments can’t coordinate their taxes very well.

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