They are ready for the home straight.
Deputies and senators reached, this Wednesday evening, an agreement on the second part of measures in favor of purchasing power which could thus be definitively validated on Thursday by Parliament, we learned from parliamentary sources.
The rectified 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.
This return of the State to 100% in EDF was announced on July 6 by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, in her general policy speech.
"This operation gives EDF the necessary means to accelerate the implementation of the new nuclear program wanted by the President of the Republic, and the deployment of renewable energies in France", declared Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy. .
Last vote before a break until the start of the school year
Also scheduled are the revaluation of the index point for civil servants (a boost that will be effective on their salary sheet for the month of August), the continuation of the tariff shield on energy and the fuel discount of 30 cents the liter in September October then 10 in November December, among others.
“The debate was constructive but difficult because we were sticking to our public deficit target” of 5% in 2022 and “it is easier for some to want to add measures”, declared the general rapporteur for the budget to the Assembly, Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance).
The Republicans "have advanced their main demands: lower the price of fuel, better pay for work, strengthen the fight against social fraud", welcomed MP Véronique Louwagie on Twitter.
The text will be put to the vote one last time Thursday in the National Assembly at 3 p.m. then in the Senate, dominated by the right, at 5 p.m.
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.
