Euro MP Chloé Ridel, 34, coordinated the 150-page Socialist Party program presented on Wednesday. Tasked by Olivier Faure a year ago, this ideological base aims for a «new socialism for the 21st century». The document, with over 600 measures, includes proposals like a tax on large inheritances and raising the minimum wage to 1600 euros.
Chloé Ridel, an MEP elected in 2024, was tasked by Socialist Party first secretary Olivier Faure a year ago to coordinate a new program. Aged 34 and partner of Paul Magnette, Belgian socialists' leader, she is described by MP Arthur Delaporte as an «affirmed radical but reassuring» figure and one of the «party's intellectuals».
The 150-page document, released on Wednesday, includes over 600 measures. A Figaro editorial notes it aligns with radical ideas akin to La France insoumise, featuring numerous taxes and duties to bolster public power.
Key proposals include an impôt sur les grandes successions (IGS) expected to yield 400 billion euros from 2025 to 2040, with no impact on 99% of French people. The program also features a 2% «taxe Zucman» on assets over 100 million euros, a minimum wage hike to 1600 euros, and inheritance taxation amid a 9000 billion euro wealth transfer from the baby-boom generation.
