The two candidates devoted their trip, Wednesday, Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise) for the Mayor of Paris and Thursday in Bordeaux for the former Minister of Justice, to the fight against violence against women.
Le Monde with AFP
If they are always opponents to the left to two and a half months of the first round of the presidential election, Christiane Taubira and Anne Hidalgo converge at least as to their proposals to combat violence against women. The two candidates have proposed, at twenty-four hours apart, to put one billion euros on this subject.
On trips to Bordeaux Thursday, January 27, the former Minister of Justice announced that it wanted “a real billion” to combat violence against women based on the recommendations of the High Council for equality between Women and men. In the billion already devoted by the government, “there are also actions taken for equality, every hour that teachers spend on equality, that must come out. There are also development aids. So, it is not satisfactory, “said M me Taubira.
While the Ministry of the Interior announced on Thursday morning that the sexual violence registered by the police and gendarmerie services increased by 33% in 2021, particularly due to an increase in declarations for old facts, The presidential candidate was visiting the place of welcome, listening and accommodation Gisèle Halimi, who helps women victims of violence.
“It signs our failure. The failure of the Government undeniably but also our collective failure,” she tried before the press, “because we can not accommodate us, (…) while women speak for a long time “. “We can not just note that these violence persisted, it takes serious measures, determining.”
The old seal guard stated that “to answer roughly correctly to the needs”, it is also necessary to “build at least 15,000 additional accommodation”, and “at least in each department, a center of Secure home “for mothers with child. Finally, “you have to change your generation, you have to teach kids and kids that violence is not a form of expression, it’s not a way, it’s not a mode of expression, that’s is not acceptable, “she said Thursday.
” What advanced? Not much “
The day before, Anne Hidalgo was traveling to Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise) in the premises of the women’s side association. It recalled its proposal to set up a Ministry of Women’s Rights with an annual budget of one billion euros, if elected to the Elysee. “In 2022, the situation of women remains unacceptable in our country,” she said, believing that the Macron government “will not have agi at all.” “He tried to do a lot of communication, but the facts are there. He had declared I think it was the great cause of his five-year old. What advanced? Not much,” said the Socialist candidate.
“Do the violence against women have declined? No, not at all. Is there less feminicides? No. Was it accompanied, helped associations at Can do their work with women? No, “she said. In its proposals, the mayor of Paris insisted on the need for the associative mesh and public services of local and recalled that it wanted to put in place a real equality of wages between women and men, by conditioning the aid of companies in their efforts. In the field.
Finally, it also wishes to introduce “a paternity leave of sixteen weeks, including six mandatory”. “This glass ceiling, these wage inequalities, these degraded women representations, it often has the fact that there is maternity, that some companies still consider a problem,” she denounced.