2023-11-08 18:43:04
It is an amendment which went a little unnoticed on Tuesday evening, while the government, the centrists and the LR senators finalized their agreement on article 3 of the immigration and integration bill, paving the way towards adoption. text in the upper house.
Shortly after the vote by the senators to abolish State Medical Aid, which they propose to transform into Emergency Medical Aid, Senator LR from Val-d’Oise Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio takes the microphone . She defends, in the name of 39 LR deputies, an amendment aimed at making the opening of rights to non-contributory social benefits conditional on five years of stable and regular residence in France. If the jargon is off-putting, the LR proposal targets measures well known to the French, namely family allowances, Personalized Housing Assistance (APL), the enforceable right to housing or even the disability compensation benefit.
This proposal is viewed very favorably by the rapporteur of the Laws Committee, Philippe Bonnecarrère, who immediately defends an identical amendment. “The proposed provision is designed as an anti-draft provision, by postponing by five years the moment from which the person entering our territory will be able to benefit from our aid,” he explains. It seems to us that in terms of national solidarity, it is not scandalous to set a grace period before the full benefit of non-contributory social benefits is acquired. »
“You are organizing child poverty”
Called to give his opinion on this measure, Gérald Darmanin is open. Since the start of examination of the text, the Minister of the Interior has been keen to play the compromise card with the senatorial majority. The minister notes that there are already delays in the opening of rights to certain benefits, citing the case of Mayotte. Despite a certain reservation regarding the disabled adult allowance, the Minister of the Interior decides to issue an “opinion of wisdom” on these two amendments. That is to say, he is not opposed to it.
This speech triggered the ire of left-wing parliamentarians. “It is still a question of postponing family allowances, that is to say the allowances paid for children,” deplores the socialist senator from Val-de-Marne, Laurence Rossignol. We are talking about people in a regular situation, who work, who pay Urssaf contributions. You organize child poverty in working families in France. Either you’re not serious or we’re hitting rock bottom. »
Voted on #Senate: A foreigner in a regular situation, employed, paying social contributions could no longer receive family allowances before 5 years of residence in the territory. The right+RN+ government discriminates against children and organizes their poverty.
— Laurence Rossignol (@laurossignol) November 7, 2023
Faced with this strong opposition, Gérald Darmanin then recalled that a foreigner arriving in France cannot receive family allowances for at least six months. “Then the question is whether, between six months and five years, there is a happy medium to be found,” he added, before the two amendments were adopted.
This vote does not mean, however, that the provision will be maintained in its final version. The deputies will still have plenty of time to come back to it when the text arrives at the Assembly. “The Senate has turned into a big sausage fair of inhumanity and indecency,” deplored Tuesday on X (formerly Twitter) the communist deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Stéphane Peu, while his environmentalist counterpart Aurélien Taché spoke of “the bad winds blowing across France”. The boss of LR deputies Olivier Marleix took the opportunity to question Gérald Darmanin’s position on these two amendments: “Mr. Darmanin in the Senate did not object. What will Mr. Darmanin do in the Assembly? “. The deputies are already ready to fight.
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