Signing a column in Le Monde, Philippe Gosselin, deputy for Manche, Mansour Kamardine, (Mayotte), Marc Le Fur, (Côtes-d’Amor) and Aurélien Pradié, (Lot), insist that “The main demand of the Mahorais is to be treated as full-fledged French people.”
Which is far from being the case, and they are spoiled for choice to cite a few examples based on the speech of Gérald Darmanin upon his arrival in Mayotte on March 11, 2024: “I am for that Mayotte is a department like the others, that is why the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister announced the Mayotte bill, which will allow each Mahorais to have the same rights and the same duties, well sure, than all other overseas departments. »
Let’s start with supplementary retirement in Mayotte. A 2002 ordinance prescribes the establishment of the Ircantec supplementary pension fund in the public sector and Agirc-Arrco in the private sector. The first was put in place… but without an implementing decree, and let us recall that with regard to the private sector, the social partners agreed in 2017 for a retroactive application in 2014 by asking the State to pay arrears. Ten years later, nothing has changed. However, and to quote only the words of the president of the association of mayors of France, LR too, the sums are not high in such a small territory, where the mass of assets is low.
A false call for air
The deputies also mention the minimum wage. The gap between the gross amounts for mainland France and Mayotte must be filled through employer and union contributions, and always depends on an agreement between social partners. “This discrimination is unbearable when we know that, if nothing is done, they will have to wait until 2078 to be able to claim the same retirement pension as other French people. »
Another injustice, the amount of the RSA. A decree taken on April 29, 2024 maintains its level at half the national rate, 317 euros instead of 635 euros. A low incentive level “allegedly to limit migratory attractiveness”, a “most fallacious” argument, criticize the deputies, “the accessibility of foreigners to social solidarity minimums is conditional on their regular presence in Mayotte for many years. »
A situation which encourages the Mahorais to go and see if the grass is greener elsewhere, “thus, the island is emptying itself of its indigenous youth, it is becoming economically and intellectually impoverished”.
The deputies conclude by hoping that the commitments made on the construction of the long runway at the airport, the second hospital, the judicial precinct, the second administrative detention center, the second prison, the disciplinary center for the socialization of young delinquents, The police station, the full-fledged university, the modernization of national roads and the announced “iron wall at sea” will not be promises from the Gascons! »
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