The presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse recalled this morning in an interview on CNews the tariff reduction in public transport in Ile-de-France from which illegal immigrants receive State medical aid (AME).
"We have a law which obliges to give 50% of reduction to the illegal ones in public transport"
she denounced, mentioning that this rate was of 75% during the mandate of her predecessor at the head of the Ile-de-France region. de-France, the socialist Jean-Paul Huchon.
According to her, the weight of this financial assistance would amount to 40 million euros each year for the Ile-de-France region.
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The abolition of this reduction was part in 2015 of the campaign promises of Valérie Pécresse for the presidency of the region, judging that it is a “
bonus for illegality
”.
Once in office, she had undertaken to remove it but had encountered the refusal of environmentalists.
The latter had won their case in January 2018 with the administrative court of Paris, then in July 2018 on appeal.
A year later, the annulment of the measure was confirmed by the Conseil d'État in cassation.
The Republican primary candidate includes in her program measures intended to reduce irregular immigration to France, such as the conditioning of social assistance to a period of legal stay in France of at least five years.