Laure Lavalette is an RN deputy for Var, regional councilor for Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur.
A year ago, Marine Le Pen sent a letter to French women.
The country's first female politician, she shared a strong message on domestic violence, attacks on our fundamental freedoms, gynecological deserts and the attention paid to single-parent families.
A year has passed and this appeal remains more relevant than ever.
Over the past few decades, everything has been done to deteriorate the situation of women in France, whether it concerns respect for their bodies, their freedom of movement, and sometimes even of expressing themselves.
Blame it on the decisions of negligent leaders, taken without awareness of their concrete impact on our lives, but also of all the policies they refuse to carry out.
At the beginning of the year, a study carried out in about fifteen hospitals in Seine-Saint-Denis revealed that 7.2% of 18-45 year olds had been victims of excision in the department.
This abominable figure shed light on a concern from another time, that of the mutilation of women in France.
Across the country and in Europe, areas of freedom restrictions have developed.
Year after year, the irrational figures of savagery underline the reality of a country where our mothers, our sisters and our daughters are no longer safe anywhere and fall prey to the violent and all forms of obscurantism.
This state of affairs now affects the entire territory, including in towns and villages hitherto spared.
Here it
is the municipality of Quimper which deploys a device to allow women to find refuge in hotels or restaurants using the code name “Angela”.
There is a Snapchat account for those in Nantes who no longer feel safe.
The relentless fight against crime in the country and everyday violence is the first response to be given to French women.
Laure Lavalette
Let's take it for granted, we will continue to be the first victims of the savagery that advances without a firm and implacable response.
Yes, the relentless fight against crime in the country and everyday violence is the first response to be given to French women.
It is pointless to fight for the freedom of women if their safety and integrity are not guaranteed.
Taking back control of our security and migration policy has long been a priority.
On the social level, the unfair pension reform carried out by the Borne government and supported by Les Républicains painfully marked the start of the year.
This will have a harder impact on women, pushed to prolong their activity more than men, according to the impact study of the bill.
More likely to work part-time, often forced into choppy careers, they are already 52% to receive a monthly pension of less than 1000 euros.
The government promised a revaluation for nearly two million French people, 60% of whom are retired, we know today that the minimum 1200 euros will only concern 10 to 20,000 French people.
By the admission of Minister Riester himself: women will be "slightly" more penalized by this reform, which
So much remains to be done for wages, health and access to care, for taking into account the difficulties specific to women, such as the prevention of endometriosis or that of breast cancer, so poorly detected since the health crisis .
Laure Lavalette
Where are the "feminists" to defend the freedom to assume our desire for motherhood without suffering economic and professional repercussions, we who are on the front line facing inflation on energy, food and everyday goods.
Aware of the problems of purchasing power and anticipating the rise in costs that we are experiencing today, Marine Le Pen defended during the last presidential election the creation of a basket of basic necessities, on which a 0% VAT would be applied.
This basket would contain in particular essential food products but also hygiene products.
Following on from the 2022 campaign, the deputies of the Rassemblement National have made the cause of women a priority, by putting
agenda the text of Senator Valérie Létard, aimed at creating universal emergency aid for victims of domestic violence.
Defended by my colleague Emmanuel Taché de la Pagerie, it was passed unanimously.
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Toll-free numbers will not be enough, any more than changing the names of streets or renaming the town of Pantin to Pantine... And if the appointment of a woman to Matignon was not enough to tangibly improve our lives as French women, the he election to the highest office of another woman, Marine Le Pen, would on the other hand be cause for hope.
So much remains to be done for wages, real equality at work, health and access to care, for taking into account the difficulties specific to women such as the prevention of endometriosis or that of breast cancer, if poorly detected since the health crisis.
So much remains to be done to encourage us to take our full place in society.
To paraphrase Stendhal, the admission of women to perfect equality remains the surest mark of civilization.