Universal basic income dominates French Socialists’ primary debate

Rebel Socialist Benoît Hamon, who resigned as education minister in protest at what he saw as the government’s rightward drift, has made the basic income proposal his key policy and Jean-Luc Bennahmias, the leader of the small Democratic and Ecologist Union, also backs the call.

And the question provided the only real controversy in the first of three televised debates ahead of the primaries to be held on 22 and 29 January.

To read our profiles of the seven candidates click here Former prime minister Manuel Valls dismissed it as contrary to his vision of a “society of work”, Euro-MP […]

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