The amendment defended by the president of the group Bruno Retailleau was rejected by 143 votes for and 185 votes against. Only Republicans voted for. The independent group has abstained and all the other groups, including centrists, voted against.
Le Monde with AFP
The majority of the right -wing Senate rejected Thursday July 28, in the evening, as part of the bill purchasing power, an amendment carried by the Les Républicains group aimed at reducing the planned revaluation of active solidarity income ( RSA).
This is a major setback for the president of the LR group in Senat, Bruno Retailleau. His amendment was rejected by 143 votes for and 185 votes against. The centrists notably voted against.
It aimed to lower the anticipated RSA revaluation to 3.5 %, against 4 % provided in the text voted by deputies. Are notably concerned by the revaluation of 4 %, in addition to pensions, family allowances and social minimum, such as RSA, disabled adult allowance (AAH) and student scholarships on social criteria.
3.5 % corresponds to the rate of revaluation of the index point of civil servants. For LR senators, “there is no reason to revalue” the RSA “at a rate higher than that of people exercising a professional activity”.
left and center, the common front
The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt opposed this differentiation of revaluation rates, stressing that “there is a symbolic force not to treat the most damaged of our fellow citizens in the same way as the others” . The left, joined by centrists, raised against the LR.
“We touch the indecency”, exclaimed Pierre Laurent (CRCE with a communist majority). “Particularly shocked”, the socialist Corinne Féret asked “how can we live” with 575 euros for a person. “When you have so little, 3 euros (difference between the two revaluation rates) is important,” she said. “These people they are busy, they are busy surviving,” said ecologist Raymonde Poncet Monge.
“No to differentiation, because our society is very fractured,” also said centrist Olivier Henno. “If we send this message, we do not bring together French society but we increase the fracture,” he added. Laurent DUPLOMB (LR) defended and then withdrawn an amendment offering not to include the RSA in the revaluations.
“I may be politically incorrect but I can tell you that there are lots of French people who work and are fed up with this situation,” he said.