“Political monster, arrogant stupidity, bad remake, unworthy behavior… ”Discussions were heated on Thursday between the majority and the elected representatives of the oppositions. On the agenda of the Assembly, the “de-maritalization” of the allowance for disabled adults (AAH), that is to say the reform of this assistance so as not to take account of the spouse’s income, unlike to what is being done today.
It is the deputy Aurélien Pradié who returned to the charge with this bill, included on the agenda by Les Républicains as part of a “parliamentary niche”, a day reserved for the opposition. Faced with LREM deputies, the rapporteur has a nice game to overwhelm a “stubborn” and “sectarian” majority. “Our job is to put pressure where it’s needed. Our mission is not to give gifts to the government, it is not to obey them ”, asserts without concession the deputy LR from Lot to 20 minutes.
Passing off majority MPs as bad guys
The operation is successful: faced with a government unfavorable to a questioning of “the entire French social protection system based on social and family solidarity”, all political groups – on the left and on the right – defended this measure. . “An incomprehensible attitude of the majority, judges the communist Stéphane Peu. Failing to want to satisfy parliamentary opposition, it is above all that there is unanimity of the people concerned who are in favor. “The approach of the walkers concerning” certain social subjects, make them contemptuous in the eyes of the French “, castigates Aurélien Pradié.
Parliamentary niches allow elected opposition officials to “propose politically tricky texts”, analysis from 20 minutes Macronist deputy Eric Poulliat. “Somehow we’re the stuffing turkey. “A few days ago, the boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner qualified, according to Opinion, parliamentary niches of “idiots”. For Eric Poulliat, the texts on the agenda by the oppositions “often do not rhyme with anything” and aim to pass the deputies of the majority for the bad guys.
Cost against blow
“The goal is to force us to take a negative position from a point of view of public opinion,” continues the deputy. One way of saying, “Look, they don’t like people with disabilities. Opposition groups hope there will be an electoral cost to us. And they hope to make a move. With seven niches planned between now and the presidential election, the traps will again present themselves for the walkers.
“We are not the ones who are putting the government in difficulty, it is they who are putting themselves in difficulty on their own!” “, Sweeps Stéphane Peu, who denounces the” bad faith “of the government about the allowance for disabled adults. “Even in terms of political method, what they did is stupid,” says Aurélien Pradié. The opposition has not finished heckling the executive with the AAH: the file will also return to the Senate on October 12, before being discussed again at the beginning of December in the Assembly at the occasion of the parliamentary niche of the Communists. With the prospect of a new competition of punchlines ?