A way to save face? The majority plans to file a bill “aiming to guarantee a one-euro meal for scholarship and precarious students” on university sites, several parliamentarians announced this Friday, the day after the rejection by one vote of the socialist bill. which aimed to extend the system “to all students”.
The bill was, this Friday evening, not available on the site of the National Assembly. “We are tabling a bill to sanctuary it for scholarship and precarious students”, justified on Twitter the leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, recalling that the device of the meal at 1 euro in the establishments of the Crous had been put in place during the health crisis.
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“We must continue to protect those who need it most and target the measures. Instead of extending this system to all students, it is preferable to strengthen aid for the most precarious students, for example by widening the basis for granting scholarships, in particular the first levels, ”also justified on Twitter the deputy of Morbihan Lysiane Métayer.
“The Government will support this bill which enshrines in law the system created during the Covid crisis, for scholarship and precarious students”, for her part indicated the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, also on Twitter.
The renewal of this meal system at 1 euro did not a priori require a new law in Parliament. But attacked for its vote against the socialist proposal to extend it to all students, the majority seems to want to recall somewhat roughly its action of yesteryear with this bill. What did not fail to raise several deputies of the Nupes, from Friday evening. “Macronism is characterized by this ability to dare everything”, in particular reacted on Twitter the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.
Regarding the socialist proposal, rejected Thursday at 183 “for” and 184 “against”, the deputy Anne Brugnera (Renaissance) had pinned a “demagogic” measure. “Thanks to you, the children of your friend Bernard Arnault will be able to go to the Crous and only pay one euro,” added his colleague Sylvain Maillard. The Minister of Higher Education Sylvie Retailleau had pleaded against the measure, the cost of which she had estimated at at least “90 million euros”.