School allowances: Sébastien Chenu castigates the tendency of LRs to “hunt down the poor”

A way to better control back-to-school allowances. This is the proposal of part of the group Les Républicains in the National Assembly: pay this aid in the form of vouchers. A text that aims to ensure that families actually make purchases in connection with the start of the school year. Sébastien Chenu, RN deputy from the North and vice-president of the National Assembly, was the guest of Lionel Gougelot this Friday on Europe 1.

While he is not “hostile to controls” and against the idea of ​​better regulating school allowances, he felt that “there must not be [une] kind of permanent suspicion.” He also castigated the tendency of the LRs to “hound the poor, to hunt down the one who does not have much means by saying: ‘He embezzles this allowance.'”

“Help Needed”

The Vice-President of the National Assembly insisted: “I do not want people to think that this back-to-school bonus, which affects the three million households that are among the most modest, would be systematically diverted, misguided and that modest parents do not use it wisely.” “It’s necessary help”, assured the deputy from the North of a “particularly poor constituency”, while specifying that “when it comes to helping families to simply equip their children to go to school, I think we are in our role”.

“There are bound to be abuses, there are bound to be people who use it differently,” admitted Sébastien Chenu. “That we control better: why not? We can establish controls. But this bill as it is presented, it is in reality a suspicion that poor families would be unable to educate their children through the use of this bounty. It is unwelcome.”

And to conclude: “I don’t like the suspicious aspect that underlies this Republican bill, which is above all a bit of a hunt for the poor.” For his part, the RN deputy would prefer “sustainable and framed solutions”: “I am not hostile to control policies when there is fraud, whether social or fiscal.”