First they dragged on.
Then they experienced a sudden acceleration.
The debates on the bill relating to the production of renewable energies have moved up a gear in the Hemicycle.
The reason ?
Some parliamentary groups have now exhausted a large part of their speaking time on this text, it being debated with a “scheduled legislative time” of 30 hours, after a decision by the Conference of Presidents of the National Assembly.
“
With this procedure, any deputy can make tunnels and these are not the most exciting sessions.
But the advantage is that the groups quickly find themselves unable to block the debates
, ”sums up a macronist executive.
Before adding: “
The last day, you will see, we will pass 600 amendments
”.
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A limited time
This legislative procedure, which allows the Lower House to fix in advance the duration of the examination of a reform, above all gives the government the possibility of preventing the debates from dragging on because of too many of amendments tabled by the opposition.
Each group has a limited amount of time depending on its size and each speech by a parliamentarian therefore deducts speaking time from his movement - except for speeches by the group president and the rapporteur of the committee responsible for examining the text.
This forces members to make choices.
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“
The scheduled legislative time allows everyone to linger when they wish, to insist on the important points.
Last week, the LRs and the RN, for example, spent a lot of time criticizing the installation of wind farms
”, deciphers one of the rapporteurs of the ENR text, Pierre Cazeneuve.
With a major advantage for the executive and the majority: "
The text will go to the end within the time allowed
", summarizes a framework of the Macron camp.
And a major inconvenience for parliamentarians of all persuasions: when the time allotted to their group is up, they can no longer take the floor.
And no longer have the opportunity to explain their amendments to the other elected officials of the Palais Bourbon.
They are then put to the vote without debate.
Criticized by the opposition
The procedure is therefore often criticized by the opposition, who accuse the government of wanting to "
extinguish the debate
", in the words of an elected Insoumis.
“
The scheduled legislative time gives a predominant voice to the RN on a text on which it has nothing to say, apart from being anti-wind.
And unfortunately, he does not leave us, the ecologists, much time for the subject to be central, it is quite frustrating
, ”regrets EELV MP Lisa Belluco.
An opinion that nuance the socialist Marie-Noëlle Battistel.
“
Despite the scheduled time, we have plenty of time to defend our amendments.
Especially since we also have the time allocated to our group president
, ”she defends.
This speaking time allocated to the head of each parliamentary group is indeed often recovered by the deputies of his camp.
This often rebalances things for groups with a smaller number of MPs.
And therefore less speaking time.
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