FRANCE’s ruling Together alliance under President Emmanuel Macron has promised to provide economic support for the public if it wins the upcoming snap election.

It comes amid fears from the alliance of losing the parliamentary vote following its heavy losses to the far-right National Rally (NR) in the recent European elections.

France’s parliamentary elections will take place on June 30 and July 7 in two rounds.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said that the French have a choice between the NR, the Together alliance and the coalition of left-wing parties under the Popular Front.

“Let’s not leap into the unknown, from a great height without a parachute,” he said, claiming that the policies advocated by the other blocs would lead to mass unemployment.

The other blocs were due to set out their own economic platforms today.

Mr Attal said that his party’s main priority was to help households with their purchasing powers, but added that measures such as lower electricity bills, linking pensions to inflation, softer inheritance taxes and help for first-time home buyers would also be on the table.

He promised there would be “no tax hikes, no matter what.”

Mr Attal also took a swing at left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon of the France Unbowed party for his criticism of Israel’s attack in Gaza, as anti-semitism has become an electoral issue following reports of the rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl.

“Faced with such a tragedy … of course I imagine that all the major politicians condemn it, including [Melenchon],” Mr Attal said.

Mr Melenchon said he was “horrified” by the attack, saying that it “shows the masculine conditioning to criminal behaviour from an early age and anti-semitic racism.”

He asked that “we not turn this crime and the suffering it causes into a media spectacle.”