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 Segolene Royale Mesure Gets French Youngsters Out Of Bed
By Lolo Laroche in Paris
Frustrated by recent polls giving her right-wing opponent Nicolas Sarkozy a lead in the presidential election campaign, Segolene Royale, the Socialist candidate this week launched her election program, a presidential “Pacte” containing 100 mesures.
A key mesure which immediately boosted Royale’s standing in the polls was the announcement of a monthly state payment to young people on the sole condition that… they are young.
The « allocation autonomie » « is designed to enable youngsters to enter their life as they mean to go on, » Royale told the assembled party faithful.
« If we get into power, many of these people may never work in their whole lives, and it’s hard on them… It’s particularly unfair that unemployment benefit is only paid to those who have worked, so youngsters entering the unempoyment market don’t have any rights at all. The « allocation autonomie » is designed to plug that gap, and enable young people to enter adult life exactly as they will continue – living on state handouts. »
Opinion polls showed that the Royale campaign received an immediate boost from the mesure, intentions of vote in the 18-24 group targeted by the mesure rose from 3% to 99% only minutes after the mesure was announced, with the majority of the new votes coming from youngsters who had previously intended to stay in bed on election day.
One such teenager, Pierre Mathis of Lyon told BIGfib, “Trop cool… Teenagers need money, for… stuff… Cash for lying in bed, that’s really cool… All they have to do now is legalise cannabis, and even I would manage to get out of bed on election day.”
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