Socialist Campaign 2023: Door-to-Door Signature Drive for European Wealth Tax

2023-09-02 15:49:30

In Mons on Saturday, Paul Magnette launches the socialist campaign, announcing a door-to-door “from the next few days” to sign a petition in favor of a European wealth tax. At his side, Olivier Faure, boss of the French PS, calls for him to “bring together as many forces as possible” on the left once morest climate change… Article reserved for subscribers Journalist in the Political Service By David Coppi Published on 2/09/2023 at 17:49 Reading time: 3 min

While waiting for the 2024 campaign, it is already the campaign in 2023. Summoned to a Summer University on Saturday at the Théâtre de Mons, socialist executives and activists were urged by Paul Magnette and Olivier Faure, at his side, first secretary of the French PS, to “knock now, in the coming days, at the doors of our fellow citizens” in order to collect “one million signatures in favor of a European wealth tax”. The Brussels Commission will move (eventually) on this sole condition. Paul Magnette added: “Alongside this citizens’ initiative for a wealth tax, which we are behind, we are at the same time launching a second campaign for the automatic indexation of wages on a European scale”. Olivier Faure noted, France does not know the mechanism allowing to limit the breakage by heavy inflation. So much for the socialist campaign of 2024, it was the kick-off on Saturday.

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