The deputies vote the alignment of social advantages between the archipelago and the metropolis by 2031 | EUROtoday

Examination of the federal government’s invoice for “Réfonder” Mayottealready adopted within the Senate, ended within the National Assembly, on the evening of Friday June 27 to Saturday June 28 round 1 hour, and notably made it doable to answer a measure claimed for years by the Mahorais: the social convergence of the archipelago.

The deputies unanimously adopted an article offering, by 2031, a harmonization of the extent of social advantages between Mayotte and the metropolis. In the poorest division in France, the quantities of social rights aren’t the identical as in the remainder of the nation. For instance, the RSA, affected by this harmonization measure, is twice as a lot as in France.

“This bill for an unprecedented ambition marks the entry into the decisive refounding phase of Mayotte. Thanks to this text, we resolutely move towards real equality for Mahorais ”mentioned the Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls, in a press release.

The Assembly has included within the legislation a primary goal to attain “87.5 %” minimal wage from 1^er January 2026. With the need, in accordance with Manuel Valls, of “Priorifying work”.

A solemn vote all through the textual content should be held on Tuesday within the Assembly. MEPs and senators will then attempt to agree on a typical model, earlier than a doable closing adoption in July.

The soul excluded from social convergence

Several deputies have recalled that the guarantees of convergence aren’t new however have by no means been held. The Minister tried to reassure them, saying that that is the primary time that this convergence has been engraved in legislation. Others have denounced the horizon of 5 years, just like the deputy for Guyana Davy Rimane (Democratic and Republican left), which “Can’t understand that our compatriots in Mayotte can be told to wait again”.

“Five years make it possible to implement this social convergence in the best possible conditions”replied Mr. Valls, specifically to not “Not weakening businesses”.

The deputies determined to exclude state medical support (AME) from this subject, by adopting an modification to the National Rally (RN), with the assist of the federal government. Mayotte is the one French division the place the AME, a tool permitting foreigners in an irregular scenario to learn from entry to sure care with out prices, doesn’t apply.

The far-right group has received different victories, equivalent to limiting French solely from the state’s care of an annual round-trip ticket for highschool college students persevering with their research exterior the archipelago. “It’s the absence” of “Common base” within the hemicycle which allowed measures “Scandalous” And “Totally unconstitutional” to be adopted, accused Manuel Valls, after the vote of this measure.

Strong mobilization of the RN group

In the night, the deputies adopted a report annexed to the invoice which lists the priorities of the State for Mayotte and the general public investments deliberate between 2025 and 2031, arrows in direction of water, schooling, well being, infrastructure or safety. Nearly 4 billion euros are deliberate inside six years.

Here once more, the programmatic part, though not binding (as a result of having no normative worth), has been largely rewritten by the RN. Forty of its amendments had been adopted because of a major mobilization of deputies of the Marine Le Pen group and dealing with the virtually empty benches of most different teams.

“All these deputies will have been very very absent during these several days of debate, which demonstrates their state of mind vis-à-vis our ultramarine territories”accused the deputy (RN) of the Gard Yoann Gillet, welcoming himself of getting succeeded in eradicating a textual content initially “Too shy”.

Earlier within the day, deputies eradicated a very irritating measure for Mahorais, which facilitates expropriations to permit the development of sure infrastructures.

Census of the extremely anticipated inhabitants

The Assembly entered the legislation the exhaustive census of the inhabitants in Mayotte in 2025, an extended -awaited provision on the island. For years, native elected officers declare that the inhabitants is underestimated with the consequence of communities much less effectively endowed than they need to be and saturated public companies.

The Assembly additionally gave the inexperienced mild to a number of institutional modifications, with the transformation of the Mayotte Departmental Council into an actual meeting.

Earlier within the week, the deputies attacked themselves to essentially the most controversial measures geared toward “Redefine” The archipelago virtually six months after the passage of the Chido cyclone: ​​these to combat immigration, particularly coming from neighboring Comoros, and casual habitat, two “Scourges” erected as a precedence by the federal government.

A measure to facilitate the destruction of slums has been adopted. His opponents alerted to the chance of worsening the variety of youngsters on the road. Another makes it doable to put in an space of ​​retention of minors accompanying an grownup topic to a distance of distance.

More consensual, the Assembly additionally validated the abolition, by 2030, of the territorialized visas in Mayotte, which stop holders from a Mahorais residence allow from coming to France.