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Student meals: Renaissance deputies propose to support aid

While the National Assembly on Thursday rejected the one-euro student meal for all students, Renaissance lawmakers on Friday introduced a bill to make this fee permanent for scholarship holders.

Renaissance deputies presented a bill this Friday to make meals permanent at one euro for scholarship or precarious students, the day after the National Assembly rejected a socialist proposal aimed at generalizing this price to all students.

“We have put food at 1 euro for students who need it during the crisis. We are presenting a bill to protect it for scholarship and precarious students,” said the head of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé.

“The government will support this bill,” Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Twitter.

It is about “a system of equity and social justice that is based on the principle of reinforced aid for the benefit of those who need it most,” sustains the explanatory statement of the bill, consulted by AFP.

Parliamentarians “harassed”

On Thursday, the first victorious votes on the amendments hinted at a possible socialist victory in favor of one-euro meals for all students, before the presidential camp mobilized deputies for the final vote.

The rejection of the PS text, except for one vote, aroused strong reactions. LFI deputy Louis Boyard, a student until his election in June, asked to “keep” the names of the deputies who opposed the one-euro meal, a practice denounced by many elected Macronistas.

Parliamentarians were then “harassed” on social media, and “some MPs saw their children (being) harassed because their parents had cast a vote,” Erwan Balanant (MoDem) reported.

Author: LB with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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