“Impudence”, “selfishness”… associations are outraged by Macron’s statements on South Africa

The president’s words were shocking. Several associations fighting instability were outraged on Wednesday by President Macron’s remark that France’s “sense of injustice” was fueled in part by the fact that some “never work.” “This feeling of injustice basically says we always work, from whom we ask for efforts “, summed up the head of state in an interview with TF1 and France 2 TV channels.

“Many workers say: vYou ask us for effort, (but) there are people who never work (and who…) will have a minimum old age “, – added Emmanuel Macron. As a result, it is necessary to “find” the beneficiaries of the RSA, help them “return to work” and “empower them”, because some are no longer working “sometimes for years or decades”, and he still claimed.

These declarations were sharply criticized by several associations fighting poverty and helping the most insecure. The National Movement of the Unemployed and Insecure (MNCP) saw in him “contempt, arrogance, selfishness”.

For the Alerte collective, which brings together 34 anti-poverty associations, “gathering and appeasing, this cannot be a contrast between those who work and those who are excluded from work! “. “We stand for the right to work, as well as a decent income for all,” the collective added on Twitter.

The president “attacks people with RSA and at least old age”, which is tantamount to spreading “always the same false ideas”, for his part criticized ATD Quart-Monde.

“Emmanuel Macron explains to us that the anger of the French, in fact, is caused by those who are helped by South Africa, who benefit from a minimum old age?? #leculot,” Manuel Domergue of the Abbé Pierre Foundation tweeted. “Subjecting the unemployed to universal condemnation until retirement is a pathetic political calculation,” he added.