Increase in nursery places, financial aid and tax deductions for families… We compare the proposals of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen who qualified for the second round of the presidential elections on April 10.
On April 10, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen qualified (with respectively 27.6 and 23.4% of the votes) for the second round of the presidential election, which will take place on Sunday April 24. What are their campaign proposals regarding early childhood? We compared them.
Emmanuel Macron: childcare, crèche places, allowances
Welcoming toddlers is one of the priorities of the current President of the Republic, who plans to open 200,000 more places in crèches. Emmanuel Macron also proposes thata family that has not obtained childcare can get compensation. With regard to aid granted to future and young parents, it provides for increase by 50% the family support allowance paid to single parents. Its amount would thus increase from 116 to 174 euros.
Marine Le Pen is betting on a revaluation of family allowances, to the French
Marine Le Pen wants to almost double the family support allowance paid to single parents but only for French parents, in order to “consolidate the national community”. It thus offers a family support allowance of 230 euros instead of the current 118 euros per month. She also suggests that family allowances are reserved for families in which at least one of the two parents is French. She would also like to introduce a full tax share at the birth of the second child (which only counts as a half share today). Finally, Marine Le Pen wants to establish a zero-rate public loan for young couples, whose capital remaining due would be canceled from the third child