In a video published on social networks, the leader of Youth with Macron, Ambroise Méjean, also a candidate on Valérie Hayer’s list for the European elections, declared that he was unemployed during the electoral campaign and received 2,500 euros in compensation per month . He explained this Friday, May 17 in a message on X.
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This is a new hiccup in the campaign of the majority while the Renaissance list is struggling in the polls. A video has been viewed more than 175,000 times on the social network TikTok and shared by numerous activist accounts on unemployed during the election campaign period » and that he “ key 2 500 euros per month “.
The sequence was quickly taken up by the opposition, particularly on the left and the RN. “ Some protégés of the Republic, well paid like Mr. Méjean, become temporarily unemployed to be able to campaign for themselves. It is all the contempt and all the cynicism of the macronie which seems to be summed up in this action », deplores Laurent Jacobelli, National Rally deputy.
A double discourse of the majority according to the left
On the left, we denounce a double discourse of the majority. “ Why does he believe that, for him, it is legitimate that he is 2,500 euros unemployed after having worked? And why is he happy that we put everyone else on the RSA or in poverty? That’s the real question », asks Hadrien Clouet, LFI deputy.
This controversy comes as Gabriel Attal must announce a new turn of the screw on unemployment insurance. Faced with criticism, the candidate explains having left his job “ after four years of professional activity on January 9, 2024, following the ministerial reshuffle “.
The former advisor to Agnès Pannier-Runacher specifies that she continues to “ actively looking for a job » and respect « all the rules that apply to job seekers “.
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