The Senate with a right-wing majority rejected this Thursday night, as part of the purchasing power bill, an amendment presented by the LR group aimed at reducing the planned revaluation of the Active Solidarity Income (RSA).
The amendment advocated in particular by group chairman Bruno Retailleau was rejected by 143 votes in favor and 185 votes against. Only LR voted for it. The Independents group abstained and all other groups, including the centrists, voted against.
It intended to lower the anticipated revaluation of the RSA to 3.5%, compared to the 4% foreseen in the text voted by the deputies. They are especially affected by the 4% revaluation, in addition to pensions, family allowances and social minimums, such as the RSA, the Allowance for Adults with Disabilities (AAH) and scholarships for students based on social criteria.
“We are touching the indecency”
3.5% corresponds to the revaluation rate of the index point for public servants. For the LR senators, “we must not revalue” the RSA “at a rate higher than that of people who carry out a professional activity.”
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt strongly opposed this differentiation of revaluation rates, stressing that “there is a symbolic force in not treating the most disadvantaged of our fellow citizens in the same way as everyone else.”
The left, together with the centrists, rose up against the LR proposal. “We are touching indecency”, exclaimed Pierre Laurent (PCF).
“Particularly shocked”, the socialist Corinne Féret asked “how can we live” with 575 euros for one person. “When you have so little, 3 euros (difference between the two types of revaluation) is important,” she stresses.
“No to differentiation, because our society is very fractured,” the centrist Olivier Henno also declared. “If we send this message there, we are not uniting French society, but we are increasing the division,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
