Paris (AFP)
The Socialist Party calls on the executive on Monday to take into account the social emergency created by the Covid-19 epidemic, stressing that French people are no longer eating their fill and calling for the establishment of direct aid to poorest households.
"Every day that passes, the health crisis and confinement increase inequalities and social fractures in our country," wrote PS boss Olivier Faure in a letter to Emmanuel Macron, made public a few hours before the address by the head of state Monday evening.
"A part of the population no longer feeds its fill. Students who benefited from meals at the Crous can no longer go there; many children, for whom the only real daily meal was that of the canteen, there have more access. Delivery drivers paid on the run see their income collapse and deprive themselves of eating ", enumerates the deputy of Seine-et-Marne, before calling on the president:" Next to the state of emergency health, you must impose a state of social emergency. "
The boss of the PS considers in particular essential to "set up an exceptional aid of 300 euros per household, and an increase of 100 euros per child, for all households benefiting from social minima, housing aid and back-to-school allowance school".
Olivier Faure also recommends the opening of unemployment insurance rights "from two months of affiliation" and the abolition of the unemployment insurance reform.
The unemployment benefit reform, the second part of the overall unemployment insurance reform, was postponed by decree to September 1. The government currently excludes repealing the reform as a whole.
Mr. Faure also calls Emmanuel Macron not to give Monday evening "no signal of relaxation" in the fight against the health crisis of the coronavirus, while giving "a plausible horizon to the French" for the stage which will follow the confinement.
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