National Rally deputies Jean-Philippe Tanguy and Sébastien Chenu outline savings options. Tang: “We need to get the departments to collaborate with each other, that will be more than enough” Chenu: ‘The national priority for non-contributory social assistance’ would save ‘at least 16 billion euros’ The far-right party also proposes a temporary tax on excess profits and “stock buybacks”.

“The mayors of small towns no longer know who to talk to,” says Tang, adding that “we removed the country guard to put communications directors everywhere in France.” ‘We must tackle the “great taboos of Bercy’, says Chenu, calling for an end to “the mismanagement in the administrative mille-feuille�” and ‘the removal of the political level of the greater region,’ he adds.