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French political parties of both the far right and the far left are vowing to cut gasoline taxes, raise wages.
Their campaign pledges threaten to bust an already-swollen government budget, push up French interest rates.
The political extremes are benefiting from widespread voter discontent about painful price rises, squeezed household budgets.
Both the left and the right pledge to roll back pension reforms that Macron railroaded through parliament last year in the face of massive street protests.
The Institut Montaigne says that those two pledges together could amount to an annual hit of between 12.5 billion euros ( $13.4 billion ) for public finances.
The EU has long insisted that member states keep their annual deficits below 3% of GDP.
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