Europe 1 with AFP 6:52 p.m., February 05, 2022
At a meeting in Lille, Eric Zemmour castigated "the assistantship" of "social aid", promising employees of "France who works" a "zero charge bonus" at the goodwill of employers.
Under the cheers, Eric Zemmour also repeated that he intended "to reserve social housing for the French".
He also booed the PS mayor Martine Aubry, who had said that he "was not welcome" in Lille.
Eric Zemmour devoted a good part of his meeting in Lille to castigating the "assistantship" of "social aid", promising employees of "France who works" a "zero charge bonus" at the goodwill of employers.
In the North, long the "industrial heart" of the country with its "generations of workers", "even more than elsewhere, the assistantship is an insult", hammered the candidate Reconquest!.
Putting an "end to the scandal of too low salaries"
In "the middle classes" and "the working classes", "we hate the assistantship". "When we get up every morning to go to work", "we do not accept that the neighbor lives better than us thanks to social assistance without the need to work", he insisted in front of some 6,000 supporters. To put "an end to the scandal of too low wages", Eric Zemmour offers a "zero charge bonus", with "zero tax and zero urssaf".
This bonus could represent "up to 3 months of net salary. A 13th, a 14th or even a 15th month without charge", he said, without quantifying his measures.
The device is reminiscent of the exceptional purchasing power bonus (PEPA), known as the "Macron bonus", a measure created in 2019 and renewed since.
Nearly 4 million employees received this bonus last year, with an average payment of 506 euros.
"If the 'Macron bonus' without charge or taxes, voted during the Covid was a good thing, then why limit it to this point? Why limit this bonus to (a ceiling of) 1,000 euros for most companies? wondered Eric Zemmour.
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"Reserving social housing for the French"
Under the cheers, Eric Zemmour also repeated that he intended "to reserve social housing for the French".
He also booed the PS mayor Martine Aubry, who had said that he "was not welcome" in Lille and demonstrated with SOS Racisme in the morning against "hate".
The candidate whistled Emmanuel Macron, whom he accuses of "ruining" France with "wasted money".
He castigated "the crazy expenses of immigration", but also the cost of public broadcasting, of which he wants to privatize the main channels.
He criticizes the public channels for their "immigrationist, woke and decolonial propaganda".
During these remarks, in the audience, an image reporter from the private channel LCI told AFP that she had been "spit in the face" by a supporter of the candidate Reconquête!.