The Prime Minister announces resources for the fight against gender-based violence and child protection, but specifies that these are budgets already committed

I take him at his word because "he said he was open to putting in the resources", reacted on France Inter on Tuesday September 15, Anne-Cécile Mailfert, president of the Women's Foundation, after Sébastien Lecornu's announcements.

The Prime Minister proposed Tuesday to devote nearly 1.5 billion euros to the fight against gender-based and sexual violence and 2.6 billion for child protection, as part of the budget discussions for 2027, he indicated in a column in Le Monde.

Matignon clarified Tuesday evening that the amounts mentioned are not additional resources but “correspond to the resources already committed in 2026” and which the government wishes to protect. However, they cannot be committed without a vote on the State and Social Security budgets for 2027, add the Prime Minister's services.

A “condition of credibility” for the Women’s Foundation

The question of means is a "condition for the credibility" of the State, believes the Prime Minister in this text, published one week before the start of the examination in the National Assembly of the comprehensive law against sexist and sexual violence, particularly in response to the Lyhanna affair.

These announcements "time well" because precisely "the comprehensive law" against sexist and sexual violence "is going to cost money", continues Anne-Cécile Mailfert. “Afterwards, we will see exactly how much, depending on the scale and ambition that the deputies want to put into this law,” explains the president of the Women’s Foundation. “I will fight for this comprehensive law to work”, so “that victims can be protected, that they can also access care and that we can do prevention”, she maintains.

To achieve all these objectives, "I understand the Prime Minister's platform as a way of also unlocking the discussions a little, without which this comprehensive law, if we do not have a minimum guarantee that there will be means, it is of little use because it will never be put in place", warns Anne-Cécile Mailfert. She intends to remain cautious because at the same time the Prime Minister “also announces that the 2027 budgets will not increase”.

Dare feminism pleads for “a real budget”

“We want a real budget which is an increase in specific and dedicated means to deploy the provisions which are in these 68 articles of the comprehensive law on sexist and sexual violence”, demands Tuesday on franceinfo, Céline Piques, spokesperson for Osez le feminisme.

“What we are going to ask during the budget vote is that all of the new measures provided for in the comprehensive law on gender-based and sexual violence be financed. And there, […] these are additional budgets that we want, we want more than 3 billion additional euros to finance these new measures,” insists Céline Piques.