Security and justice, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Violence against women and children: €5bn plan against violence against women and children
Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.
The lever. Prevention of and action against domestic, sexual and intra-family violence and violence against children: plans, budget, reception and shelter of victims, protection measures, framework act. Direction rule: ↑ more public resources against such violence.
« La loi intégrale, aujourd'hui, elle correspond à une augmentation de 0 euro dans les budgets pour les violences faites aux femmes et les violences faites aux enfants. Je rappelle que le 1,5 milliard d'euros annoncé par Sébastien Lecornu, là aussi, c'est une tromperie. […] Nous, nous pensons qu'il faut une augmentation conséquence, d'où un plan pour les deux, c'est-à-dire à la fois les violences faites aux femmes et aux enfants, de 5 milliards d'euros. »1Translation by the editorsThe comprehensive law, today, corresponds to an increase of 0 euros in budgets for violence against women and violence against children. I would point out that the 1.5 billion euros announced by Sébastien Lecornu is, here again, a deception. […] We think that a substantial increase is needed, hence a plan for both, that is to say for violence against both women and children, of 5 billion euros.
Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo), 14 October 2026. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, tasked by the candidate with carrying the programme: they commit the candidate.
Link to the candidacy: Alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he presents the budget the candidate would have passed from 2027 through an amending finance act; he is responsible for his economic programme.
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| Parameter | Current law | Proposed | Effective date or horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additional public funding against violence against women and children | 0 €bn/year | 5 €bn/year (assumption by the editors, see the costing) | Spending in a full year, static: €1 announced = €1 of deficit, compared with current policies, under which the programming of the comprehensive law has not b… |
Costing
Announced by the candidate
−€5bn
per year, new spending. Éric Coquerel, press conference of 14 October 2026 (around 0:42:57): « d'où un plan pour les deux, c'est-à-dire à la fois les violences faites aux femmes et aux enfants, de 5 milliards d'euros. » [“hence a plan for both, that is to say both violence against women and against children, of 5 billion euros.”]
Published costings
none
No external costing of this position recorded to date.
Our calculation
−€5bn
per year for the public accounts, new spending. Candidate’s amount, taken as is.
The calculation
- Additional public funding against violence against women and children: (5 − 0) ÷ 1 = 5 times “+€1bn a year of public funding against violence against women and children”, each a cost of €1bn (1 to 1).
Assumption by the editors. Reading adopted: €5bn per year more than current appropriations, an amount included in the 2027 budget. The quote presents the €5bn as an increase: it contrasts this plan with the €1.5bn announced by the Government, described as a « socle existant » [“existing base”] that « n'est pas une augmentation » [“is not an increase”]. It is therefore not a total from which existing spending should be deducted, unlike the €3bn of the comprehensive law for other candidates. The conference does not say whether the plan is renewed every year or over how many years it runs.
Figure announced by the candidate: candidate’s amount, taken as is.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Interministerial plan for equality between women and men 2023-2027, whose first strand is devoted to violence against women; plan to combat violence against children 2023-2027 (€11.5m in the PLF 2027). Programme 137 « Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes »: €98.65m in the LFI 2026, €106.28m in the PLF 2027. 2026 cross-cutting policy document: €562.32m in payment appropriations for the strand « Combattre les violences faites aux femmes » (combating violence against women). The Government puts existing spending against sexual and gender-based violence at €1.5bn (€1bn from the State, €0.5bn from social security). The « intégrale » (comprehensive) private member's bill against sexual, gender-based and domestic violence was adopted at first reading by the National Assembly on 13 October 2026 (accelerated procedure); the Senate has not yet examined it. Its article 68 schedules €3,000m in appropriations a year from 2027 to 2032.
Horizon. Spending in a full year, static: €1 announced = €1 of deficit, compared with current policies, under which the programming of the comprehensive law has not been finally passed.
Limits. Envelope parameter, like public investment or rail: it applies only to an amount announced on top of current resources. A commitment expressed as a total budget (“raise the resources to X”) comes down to the difference from existing spending, which the Government puts at €1.5bn for sexual and gender-based violence; this amount aggregates appropriations from several budgets and is not published line by line (the 2026 cross-cutting policy document puts the « violences » (violence) axis at €562.32m; the 2027 one is not yet published). If the comprehensive law is finally adopted with its programming, the current-policies baseline changes and this cost schedule changes: the Government estimates the cost of its measures, eventually, at €3bn to €4bn on top of existing spending. Benchmark, not counted: the Fondation des Femmes (2023, non-profit source) estimates the needs at €2.6bn to €5.4bn per year for violence against women alone. Part of these resources may also appear in the Justice budget (victim support) or in police headcount: overlap declared with the Justice mission budget.
- PLF 2027, projet annuel de performances, mission « Solidarité, insertion et égalité des chances » (pages 51 et 86), 2026-10: « passant de 30 M€ en loi de finances initiale (LFI) 2020 à 98,65 M€ en LFI 2026. En 2027, le budget du programme 137 atteindra 106,28 M€ […] Le plan de lutte contre les violences faites aux enfants 2023-2027 (11,5 M€) »
- PLF 2026, document de politique transversale « Politique de l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes » (page 14), 2025-10: « Axe 2 : Combattre les violences faites aux femmes, protéger les victimes et prévenir la récidive La contribution des ministères à la réalisation de cet objectif de la politique transversale s’élève pour 2026 à 562,32 M€ en CP. »
- Assemblée nationale, compte rendu de la deuxième séance du vendredi 9 octobre 2026 (Aurore Bergé, David Amiel), 2026-10-09: « nous consacrons déjà 1,5 milliard d'euros à la lutte contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes. Plus précisément, 1 milliard provient du budget de l'État et 500 millions de celui de la sécurité sociale. […] Nous estimons que le coût des mesures, à terme, lorsqu'elles seront pleinement appliquées, sera compris entre 3 et 4 milliards d'euros. Cette somme s'ajouterait aux dépenses déjà existantes »
- Assemblée nationale, texte adopté n° 356 (version provisoire), proposition de loi « intégrale » contre les violences sexuelles, sexistes et intrafamiliales, article 68 (page 125), 2026-10-13: « La Nation s’engage à allouer, sur la période de 2027 à 2032, à la lutte contre les violences sexuelles, sexistes et intrafamiliales contre les femmes et les enfants les crédits en application du tableau du deuxième alinéa du présent article. […] (En millions d’euros) Année Crédits 2027 3 000 2028 3 000 2029 3 000 2030 3 000 2031 3 000 2032 3 000 »
- Assemblée nationale, dossier législatif de la proposition de loi « intégrale », 2026-10-13: « Proposition de loi, adoptée par l'Assemblée nationale après engagement de la procédure accélérée, apportant une réponse intégrale au phénomène des violences sexuelles et sexistes contre les femmes et les enfants le 13 octobre 2026, T.A. n° 356 »
- Fondation des Femmes, « Où est l'argent contre les violences faites aux femmes ? » (page 4), 2023-09: « L’ETAT AURA DÉPENSÉ 184,4 MILLIONS D’EUROS EN 2023 POUR LUTTER CONTRE TOUTES LES VIOLENCES FAITES AUX FEMMES QUAND LES BESOINS ATTEIGNENT ENTRE 2,6 À 5,4 MILLIARDS D’EUROS. »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo), 14 October 2026. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, tasked by the candidate with carrying the programme: they commit the candidate. Read the source (Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo)).
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