Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has announced the launch of a simulator calculating retirement pensions if the New Popular Front implements its program. LFI describes this site as “deceptive.”
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Tensions are rising at the end of the campaign for the first round of early legislative elections. La France Insoumise took the matter to court on Friday, June 28, for “spreading false information”, after the launch by Renaissance of a retirement simulator supposedly built on the New Popular Front program. During the debate organized Thursday evening on France 2, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced the launch of this simulator calculating retirement pensions if the New Popular Front applied its program.
“All the French people who are watching us can connect to the site. You enter the amount of your pension and you see how much your CSG is [contribution sociale généralisée] will increase and how much less retirement will that mean for you”said Gabriel Attal, then posting the link to the site on the social network X.
Rebellious France quickly counterattacked. “We are taking action before the judicial judge on the basis of article L163-2 of the Electoral Code due to false and misleading allegations likely to alter the vote”, the movement told AFP. Objective : “Stop this broadcast”as provided for in this article of the Electoral Code. The interim relief judge must rule within forty-eight hours following the referral.
“This simulator is a lie”assured LFI in a press release, explaining that it relies “based on calculation methods which do not appear in the New Popular Front programme and give completely incoherent results which could be misleading” the electors. “A few days before the election, this disinformation campaign is simply unacceptable”adds the movement.
