An RSA request (illustration).

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ALLILI MOURAD / SIPA

The government is not in favor of opening the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) to the majority.

Neither did the Senate, since it rejected on Wednesday evening a PS bill aimed at extending the RSA to 18-25 year-olds to respond to the “social emergency” of unemployed young people whose precariousness was aggravated by the crisis in Covid-19.

Only the left voted in favor of the text carried by the youngest of the Senate, Rémi Cardon.

"A rejection that sounds like a slap"

"This outright rejection sounds like a slap in the face to the thousands of young French people who have to face the social and economic crisis which hits them particularly hard," the PS group said in a statement.

“Young people are on the front lines of this crisis.

They serve as the first adjustment variable among employers, "argued Rémi Cardon, stressing that in France," one in five young people under 25 live below the poverty line, i.e. more than 1.5 million. of young people ”.

This text was according to him "to constitute the first brick of an overall approach for youth".

For the PS rapporteur Monique Lubin, it brought "a concrete solution quickly applicable to the situations of poverty of young adults".

"There is fire", according to the socialist Patrick Kanner

"Can society accept that the soup kitchen is the horizon of a part of the youth?"

“, Launched the leader of the Socialist senators, Patrick Kanner, Wednesday morning in front of the parliamentary press.

"I have never been in favor of extending the RSA to those under 25", "but if I have changed my mind, it is because there is fire" in the face of "distress" of a large part of the youth, he had developed, defending "a logic of interpellation".

"More than a net, we need a springboard," Agnès Canayer (LR) said on the right.

"Only support will enable young people (...) to find their place in society", she continued, pleading in favor of the development of the Youth Guarantee.

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