French presidential candidate Mélenchon promises economic stimulus and calls for exit from NATO

Outlining his economic program, Mélenchon said that his anti-capitalist, radically leftist party France Unbowed (LFI) would act contrary to the current president, centrist Emmanuel Macron. “First, through consumer spending, because in our country it accounts for more than half of economic activity. And second, through the billions (of euros) that already exist. This is savings that must be directed toward the ecological and social needs of our country,” he said.