Overview
- Gabriel Attal published a detailed campaign platform in an interview on Thursday, July 2, 2026, proposing a ten‑year path to balance the budget and quantifying measures to achieve it.
- He sets a deficit trajectory of 3% of GDP before 2032 and a legal cap of 0% of GDP by 2037 inside a ten‑year economic programming law.
- To deliver €120–150 billion of savings without raising taxes he prioritises social‑spending cuts, proposes a one‑year freeze on most social benefits in the 2028 budget while protecting small pensions, and seeks fast structural reforms of pensions, sick leave and unemployment insurance.
- The plan would remove 100,000 public‑sector jobs through voluntary departures and non‑replacement of some retirements while protecting Education, Armed Forces, Justice and Interior posts, and it introduces an ‘impunité zéro’ rule forcing ministers or central directors who miss budgets to leave with a government resignation trigger after three years of missed targets.
- Attal also promises a ‘big bang’ territorial overhaul to create single new local authorities, supports an early‑term referendum to enshrine a ‘golden rule’, and faces likely resistance from unions, parliament and the European Commission as his proposals move from campaign pledges toward possible legislation.