Battle across the discount of social support within the southern provinces | EUROtoday

Adopted after the independence rebellion of May 13, 2024 which led to the rampage of the Grand-Noumea, the restriction of social support within the South province, with a loyalist majority, was the topic of two appeals examined earlier than the Noumea administrative court docket, Thursday, March 20. One was on the initiative of the nationalist, independence and sovereignist motion (MNIS) and the Union of Parents’ Groups (UGPE), the opposite was deposited by Philippe Michel, elected from the Caledonia Ensemble Party (non -moderate independence).
The reform adopted on July 15, 2024 brings the minimal period of residence from six months to 10 years so as to have the ability to declare social help, college scholarships and even social housing, and reduces medical support. The government justifies it by the numerous degradation of its tax income, imposing drastic financial savings. The alternative additionally to hunt double domiciliations practiced in accordance with the province by households from the North and the Islands.
The opposition, in useless, denounced a coverage of social repression, in a context of robust development of precariousness after city riots. According to the Oceanian Eveil Party, the textual content “Strengthens discrimination against the most vulnerable, particularly Kanak, Wallisians and Futunians”. The social gathering Caledonia collectively, by the voice of its president Philippe Gomès, spoke of “Act 1 of apartheid”. All check with the message posted on June 5, 2024 on social networks by Sonia Backès, president of the province: “You break, you pay!” I say it to those that have burned, looted, blocked Caledonia, to those that proceed, the province will take away all of the aids from which they profit from them. »»
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