While the National Assembly on Thursday rejected the one-euro student meal for all students, Renaissance deputies tabled a bill on Friday to make this rate permanent for scholarship holders.
Renaissance deputies tabled a bill on Friday to make one-euro meals permanent 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 set up the meal at 1 euro for students who need it during the crisis. We are tabling a bill to protect it for scholarship and precarious students,” said the boss of the Renaissance group Aurore Bergé.
“The government will support this bill,” said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Twitter.
It is “a system of equity and social justice which is based on the principle of reinforced aid for the benefit of those who need it most”, supports the explanatory memorandum of the bill, consulted by the AFP.
Parliamentarians “harassed”
Thursday, the first victorious votes on 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 “retain” the names of the deputies who opposed the one-euro meal, a practice denounced by many elected Macronists.
Parliamentarians were then “harassed” on social networks, and “some deputies saw their children (being) harassed because their parent had cast a vote”, reported Erwan Balanant (MoDem).
