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Renaissance deputies Sacha Houlié, Éric Bothorel and Sylvain Maillard at the National Assembly on December 20 (illustration).
POLITICS – Sometimes the battle of ideas manifests itself through “ likes “. Example with this tweet from Renaissance MP for Paris Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, relaying an interview in which she cuts into pieces Gabriel Attal’s desire to tap into unemployment benefits to make up for a more serious deficit than expected.
Among people who have “ liked » This counter to the executive, we find several Macronist deputies, such as Anne Genetet, Laurence Maillart-Méhaignerie, Éric Bothorel and Sacha Houlié. Pillar of the majority, and incarnation of its left wing, the president of the Law Commission also expressed his reservations.
“ The government will have to have a transparent explanation with us. We agree to encourage a return to work; we agree on countercyclicality, adapting according to the situation. But not to make the unemployed more precarious. This is not our philosophy, and this is not how we will get things done », warns Sacha Houlié in The Parisian this Saturday March 30, when his colleague from Paris, Gilles Le Gendre, also brings out his claws.
“ The urgency is not to reform unemployment insurance »
“ Taken in an emergency and at the risk of driving a new wedge into social dialogue, this umpteenth reform has a strictly financial objective. The motivation of full employment is an alibi to give it a semblance of virtue », he denounces to the same daily. As said above, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet also led the charge. While the Prime Minister estimates that the reduction in the duration of compensation will encourage the resumption of activity, which will generate additional revenue for the state coffers, the elected official from Paris undermines this calculation.
“ What we see is that in countries which have harsher compensation conditions, there are always unfilled jobs. So there is a real subject today on the attractiveness of these professions », explains the co-founder of En Marche, whose demonstration was applauded by the former president of Medef, Laurence Parisotor even François Hommeril, president of the CFECGC, the executives’ union.
In Le Figaro On March 28, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet co-signed a column with a socialist deputy, Dominique Potier, and another LR, Stéphane Viry. The three, all members of the Social Affairs Committee, call on the government to review its copy. “ The proposals put forward by the government look more like an emergency measure to respond to the financial situation and the marginal rise in unemployment than a real ambition. attack the signatories.
Maud Bregeon procrastinates
Reservations which are well understood, according to Maud Bregeon, MP for Hauts-de-Seine and spokesperson for Renaissance. “ Sacha Houlié is right, making the unemployed more precarious is not our philosophy, and should not be our philosophy”she said on France Inter this Saturday March 30, while hammering home the government argument, consisting of defending “ a more incentive system “.
This is precisely the postulate that several Renaissance elected officials contest, some of whom are already worried about the signal sent by this announcement in the middle of the European campaign. What’s more in a context where the socialist candidate Raphaël Glucksmann attracts in the polls center-left voters disappointed by the right-wing of the executive, after the pension reform and immigration law. Two issues which had already divided the majority. Nearby HuffPosta left-wing executive fulminates in advance about the potential negative effect on Valérie Hayer’s campaign: “ Gabriel Attal will assume… “.
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