Macron Criticized for Proposing Existing Child Support Measures as New Ideas

The French president stated: "We discovered, we must say with great humility during this movement, what we now call single-parent families". And in this sense, he proposed that the CAF (Family Allowance Fund) have "prerogatives to deduct unpaid child support". A system that has existed since 2017... Reintroduced in 2019!

Najat Vallaud Belkacem, former French Minister for Women’s Rights, did not hesitate to ridicule the current French president (since May 2017). On Twitter, she writes: "Would it be to say that others would have ’discovered single-parent families’ a long time ago and -let’s be crazy- ... would even have already implemented what he is announcing tonight? Nooo, that wouldn’t be serious".

Note that the former minister, as written by the Huffpost, "had carried in 2014 the ’law for real equality between women and men’, which provided for ’guarantees against unpaid child support’".

And she is not the only one to have questioned Macron’s remarks that sounded like novelties. Laurence Rossignol, former Minister of Families, also tweeted: "Without controversy and without denying that the system can be improved, I do not understand the difference between what the President of the Republic has just announced and what was put in place in January 2017".