Terminal criticized after its invitation to a woman in a wheelchair to “resume a professional activity”

The reactions, on the left in particular, were not long in coming. It is an answer that makes a lot of people react. Guest of France Bleu this Wednesday, Elisabeth Borne was questioned by a person with a disability, Dolorès, concerning aid, in particular the disabled adult allowance (AHH). The Prime Minister then, among other things, suggested to him to “resume an activity”. Cold snap in the studio. “I love when the Prime Minister says to resume a professional life, but you know that we are in a wheelchair…”, retorts the listener before bursting into tears, unable to continue her sentence. “Without my husband, I would be on the street“This sequence, strongly shared on social networks, therefore took place while Elisabeth Borne was answering questions from listeners live. Dolorès then explains that she is in a wheelchair following a “very serious accident” and “no longer able to work”. She calls “to find out if the State intends to do something for people who are disabled”. Indeed, she says she is deprived of the disabled adult allowance (AAH) because of her husband’s income. “I am told that I have the right to nothing because we exceed the ceilings. Without my husband, I would be on the street”, she continues. This allowance, under fire from critics for several years, is not, in effect, paid only below a certain amount of annual income for the whole couple, even if only one person is disabled. “Perhaps resuming a professional activity” At the end of the line, Elisabeth Borne him then speaks of the other aid available, in particular that which is “without means test”. Then if she says “hear [son] emotion”, the Prime Minister awkwardly suggests to him to “resume a professional activity”.“Then, there is the way in which we can support you so that you can perhaps resume a professional activity, I imagine that thing you could wish for…”, she explains. Faced with the emotion of Dolores, Elisabeth Borne recovered herself by adding: “Perhaps, this is not the time to talk about this recovery professional”. For Mélenchon, Borne “humiliates a woman in a wheelchair” But this half mea culpa was not enough to curb the opposition, which was quick to react. Starting with the one who intends to replace Elisabeth Borne at Matignon after the legislative elections. “She humiliates a woman in a wheelchair”, launches Jean-Luc Mélenchon in a tweet denouncing a “brutal technocrat”. “Glacial” and “insensitive” for Fabien Roussel, “a block of ice” for Olivier Faure, the new Prime Minister is cursed on social networks. In the middle of the legislative campaign, on the left, we seized on this controversy to promote the NUPES and its proposal to deconjugalize the disabled adult allowance.