Deputies and senators reached an agreement on Wednesday evening August 3 on the second part of measures in favor of purchasing power which could thus be definitively validated on Thursday by Parliament, AFP learned from parliamentary sources.
The amended draft budget for 2022, which was under discussion in a joint joint committee (7 deputies, 7 senators), opens up 44 billion euros in credits, including 9.7 to finance the 100% renationalization of EDF.
Also scheduled are the revaluation of the index point for civil servants, the continuation of the tariff shield on energy and the fuel discount of 30 cents per liter in September-October then 10 in November-December, among others.
The text will be put to the vote one last time Thursday in the National Assembly at 3:00 p.m. then in the Senate, dominated by the right, at 5:00 p.m.
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It completes a first part definitively adopted on Wednesday and including the tripling of the ceiling of the Macron bonus that can be paid by employers, the 4% increase in retirement pensions and several allowances, as well as the "
deconjugalization
" of the allowance. disabled adults.
The polls on Thursday will mark the break in work until the start of the school year, after a summer marathon of three weeks on these measures taken in the face of galloping inflation (+6.1% in July over one year according to the Insee), which had been a major subject of the presidential campaign.
