"You are the best of liars"
,
"Aren't you ashamed?", "You are King Macron's red jesters"
... Little by little, the heat wave was invited into the Hemicycle.
Monday afternoon, while Bruno Le Maire and the various rapporteurs take the floor in the National Assembly to explain the measures of the purchasing power bill, the benches of the majority are still very sparse.
But the oppositions are already bubbling, belching immediately against the words of the Minister of the Economy.
This bill, which will be debated for several days, promises to be discussed in a burning atmosphere, a week after the Nupes / LR / RN oppositions managed to empty the executive's health bill of its substance.
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Especially since if certain proposals of the majority, such as the deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance (AAH), achieve consensus, others are rejected or deemed insufficient by the Nupes
,
the RN or LR.
During his speech at the podium at the opening of the session, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, recalled that the majority was
"open"
and wanted to work in a
"constructive"
way , while specifying that
"the compromise is not 'buy with billions and build at the expense of public spending'
.
“Find consensus”
A little earlier, on RTL, he underlined
“a real will”
of the socialists as of the Republicans to
“find the consensus”
.
“Real co-construction work has been carried out in the various committees concerned.
I hope that they will remain with this same will within the Hemicycle”
, he welcomed.
But the various groups do not intend to leave the government's text unchanged.
In less than 48 hours, parliamentarians tabled more than 1,000 amendments to the text, 523 of which have already been deemed inadmissible.
Some of the opposition also accuses the government of aping dialogue and compromise.
“Some majority deputies advocate discussion, but the truth is that there is no global work”
, regrets for example Sandra Regol (EELV).
During the debates, in the Hemicycle, Les Républicains like the National Rally do not hesitate to step up against certain measures proposed by the executive.
“Stop saying that our solutions are expensive (…).
Our debt is abysmal and you have hidden it”
, accuses LR Thibault Bazin, while Marine Le Pen castigates
“the artificial tremolos”
of the executive in terms of dialogue.
We are rather in favor of the text on purchasing power.
It is on the amending finance bill (PLFR) that we are not going to go in the direction of the government,
Véronique Louwagie, deputy LR and vice-president of the finance committee
Despite this, some opposition groups do not rule out voting for part, or even all, of this project.
“We are rather in favor of the text on purchasing power.
It is on the amending finance bill (PLFR) that we are not going to go in the direction of the government, whose fuel device does not suit us”
, warns Véronique Louwagie, deputy LR and vice-president of the commission. finances.
The latter, which will normally be debated from Thursday at the Palais Bourbon, plans in particular to extend and strengthen the measures limiting the rise in energy prices.
But the Republicans' proposal to freeze fuel prices at 1.50 euros per liter is not included.
"There have been discussions on the subject, but, for the moment, we have not found a landing point"
, warns Véronique Louwagie.
As for the National Rally,
“most of the measures”
proposed will be voted on in order not to obstruct, announced Marine Le Pen to the applause of her troops.
While the first elements of the text are being debated, tempers are gradually heating up in the Hemicycle.
The discussion, more and more animated, must continue until late at night.
It will continue over the next few days, with a result that remains uncertain for the majority for the time being.
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