“I did not come with a catalog of 12,000 Excel tables”: Marine Tondelier defends an increase in the minimum wage to “2,000 euros gross” in the event of victory in the presidential election

Marine Tondelier wants to increase the minimum wage to “2,000 euros gross” if she gains access to the Élysée. Invited this Thursday, November 12 on the show You President on BFMTV, the environmentalist presidential candidate affirmed that she would “immediately” raise the level of the minimum wage to “2.

000 euros gross" in the event of victory in 2027, while the government recently announced an anticipated increase in the minimum wage of 1.6% on December 1, 2026. The minimum wage will therefore reach 1,502 euros net per month, or 1.

897 euros gross. “We wrote [this figure of 2,000 euros] in our program” which was “published last July” and it then corresponded to an increase “of 7.12%” indicated Marine Tondelier.

But "since July there has been a lot of inflation" and "maybe 7.12% will no longer be relevant at that time and we will have to do a little more." Furthermore, “I would like us to increase the number of people who receive up to 2,000 euros net,” added the environmentalist candidate.

“Aid dedicated to VSEs and SMEs” “We will encourage companies to do it” by conditioning “all exemptions” to the increase in people who “receive less than 2,000 euros net per month”, affirmed Marine Tondelier. "There are very small businesses, small businesses, medium-sized businesses that sometimes have difficulty making ends meet", but "no business leader is indifferent to the fact of seeing in their company, people who work and sleep in their cars or who cannot feed their children properly", she affirmed, also promising "dedicated aid to VSEs and SMEs" who "cannot afford this increase in the minimum wage".

Questioned by BFMTV journalists about the cost for businesses of such an increase in the minimum wage, Marine Tondelier declared that she did not have "the precise figure to give [them]" on set, also explaining that she wanted to discuss this subject with businesses if she came to power. “Me, this is how I will govern. I am not Jupiter […]

]. We are going to work with them [the business leaders], with regular updates, to see how we are doing," said the environmentalist candidate. "Of course that [the cost for businesses of an increase in the minimum wage] has been quantified", but this evening "I did not come with a catalog of 12.

000 Excel tables where I learned all the numbers by heart,” added Marine Tondelier.

Machine-translated from French