Disability: our listener Dolorès “does not hold it against Élisabeth Borne” and explains that she wanted to “launch an appeal” – France Bleu

“I felt like a stain for French society”. This is what Dolorès, listener to France Bleu Azur, said in “My France” this Wednesday, the day after her exchange with Élisabeth Borne about the disabled adult allowance. Tuesday, while the Prime Minister was the exceptional guest of Wendy Bouchard in “My France”, Dolores had challenged the Head of Government on her situation. Elisabeth Borne replied that she should, perhaps, “resume a professional activity”. A response that sparked criticism from the left and from associations working for the disabled. To display this Twitter content, you must accept Social Network cookies. These cookies allow you to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content originally posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting. I authorize Manage my choices “I don’t blame Elisabeth Borne at all” – Dolorès, in “My France” “I felt like a stain for French society”, confides this Wednesday Dolorès to Wendy Bouchard in Ma France. Returning to the extent of the controversy that followed the sequence, Dolorès assures: “I don’t blame Elisabeth Borne at all, I don’t blame this woman at all”. The 56-year-old listener recounted how she experienced the exchange with the Prime Minister. The need is to feel like full human beings “Maybe yes, I took the answer badly, which was not what I expected”, confided Dolores. “My only expectation was for her to say, ‘Yes ma’am, the AAH demaritalization file is going to be opened,'” she said. “I focused on his answer about work, because they closed the doors to me because of my chair,” she recalled. At that time, “I felt, if you will, like a stain for society, I still have trouble today,” she says. Dolores said she was aware that the Prime Minister did not want to hurt her. Dolores also confided that she “launched this call” because “there are other people who are disabled, more precarious, more fragile than me. The need we have is to feel like full human beings” , she confided. “Me, it’s my daughter-in-law who comes to wash me, it’s not normal, we shouldn’t go through this, the French people shouldn’t go through this,” said Dolores. “The President must hear this call.” The exchange between Elisabeth Borne and Dolorès On Tuesday, when the Prime Minister was the exceptional guest of Wendy Bouchard in “My France”, she was questioned by Dolorès about the deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance. The 56-year-old woman had deplored the fact that she could not receive this aid because of her spouse’s income. After answering her that she was entitled to aid, Élisabeth Borne suggested that she “perhaps resume a professional activity”. Very moved, Dolores replied with tears in her voice: “I love it when the Prime Minister says to resume a professional life, but you know when you arrive in a wheelchair…” After a short silence, Elisabeth Borne replied that it was not necessary “to consider that employers must close the door to people in wheelchairs”, before talking to him again about possible aid and the deconjugalization project of the AAH. To display this Twitter content, you must accept Social Network cookies. These cookies allow you to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content originally posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting. I authorize Manage my choices The left accuses the Prime Minister of having humiliated Dolores A few days before the first round of legislative elections, the Prime Minister’s response to Dolores has been heavily criticized by the political class. Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticized her for being a “brutal technocrat” who “humiliates a woman in a wheelchair”. To display this Twitter content, you must accept Social Network cookies. These cookies allow you to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content originally posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting. I authorize Manage my choices Fabien Roussel, legislative candidate in the North, considered that this response was “icy”, and judges the Prime Minister “insensitive”. To display this Twitter content, you must accept Social Network cookies. These cookies allow you to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content originally posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting. I authorize Manage my choices “On April 15, 2022, Mr. Macron promised to deconjugalize the disabled adult allowance. A month and a half later, Mrs. Borne responds to a woman in a wheelchair that she only has to look for labor”, also reacted Ian Brossat, spokesperson for the Communist Party and deputy mayor of Paris. “It’s the story of an encounter with a block of ice,” quipped PS boss Olivier Faure. A sequence also denounced by Julien Bayou, national secretary EELV and legislative candidate in Paris. He recalls that the Nupes offers, in its program, the deconjugalization of the AAH. To display this Twitter content, you must accept Social Network cookies. These cookies allow you to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content originally posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting. I authorize Manage my choices Elisabeth Borne criticized by associations Following this exchange, Elisabeth Borne was also criticized by associations acting for people with disabilities. “The Prime Minister ignores the situation of people with disabilities, in particular that of people to access employment”, reacted on franceinfo Stéphane Lenoir, coordinator of the Collectif Handicaps, which brings together associations working in favor of people with disabilities. He believes that “the Prime Minister is in a situation of giving lessons, without knowing the situation of the person” whose right is “prevented because she is in a relationship”. “We were all a little shocked, surprised by the reaction of the Prime Minister”, confided Arnaud de Broca, the president of the collective Handicaps in “My France” this Wednesday. He confided his feeling of “striking shift” listening to this exchange. About the deconjugalization of the AAH, he affirmed the need to obtain “acts on the subject. We must move up a gear”, he affirmed. Elisabeth Borne reaffirmed, on Tuesday in Ma France, the government’s desire to “deconjugalize” the Disabled Adult Allowance”. But in October, the majority had rejected the individualization of the disabled adult allowance for people in couples, after a lively debate.