New unprecedented imbroglio at the Palais Bourbon.
It is a little after 6 p.m. Tuesday evening when the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, decides to suspend the session and to organize a vote by nominative ballots in the ballot box.
The reason ?
A technical problem preventing some MEPs present in the Hemicycle from voting via the electronic box located on their tables.
"
It's
unheard of ," whispers, flabbergasted, a Macron camp executive.
And yet it is not for lack of trying.
On three occasions, Yaël Braun-Pivet put the bill aimed at accelerating the production of renewable energies to the vote.
Three times where the text also obtains the majority... But each time, all the votes of the parliamentarians present are not taken into account.
“
It does not work, it does not work
”, warn many elected officials, on both sides of the Hemicycle.
The result will therefore wait until later, the time to organize this ballot in the salons of the Palais Bourbon, at the request of the president of the institution.
An improvised and “
catastrophic
” organization, in the words of a Renaissance deputy.
Only two tables are installed and more than 500 deputies are crowded together to collect their ballot.
A “
huge mess
” and a “
crush
” filmed by opposition deputies, having a great time.
“
A chaotic moment
”, summarizes a deputy of the majority.
But this new setback will not prevent the adoption of the text.
The news fell a little after 9:30 p.m.: this bill, defended by the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, was finally adopted at first reading in the National Assembly, with 286 votes in favor and 238 against.
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“I was pessimistic”
His examination was however feared by the executive.
So much so that several executives from the presidential camp even thought that it could not be adopted, given the political configuration of the National Assembly and the Senate.
"
I was very pessimistic about the future of this text, the fact is that in the end, it's going pretty well
", welcomes for example Laurent Marcangelli, boss of the Horizons group.
After having sought a compromise on the right of the Hemicycle on the previous texts, it is on its left side that the presidential camp this time went to negotiate.
With success concerning the socialists.
The parliamentarians of the rose party voted in favor of this bill aimed in particular at accelerating the procedures for the installation of wind and solar farms and at increasing the deployment of wind power at sea
. no, it will be that of pensions, and there is a time to cooperate in the name of the general interest, this has come.
We must act and we will meet our responsibilities
, ”PS deputy Dominique Potier announced to the press a little earlier on Tuesday.
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On this text, the Socialists welcome the "
real dialogue
" between the executive and the left parties.
"
Consultations which no one knows if they are a parenthesis or a laboratory
", boasted Dominique Potier.
A “
permanent
” discussion widely observed during the debates at the Palais Bourbon, punctuated by numerous session interruptions during which Agnès Pannier-Runacher brought together the leaders of the various left-wing groups to find agreements.
Negotiations also badly experienced by some members of the majority.
“
There is a kind of frustration to see that very many concessions have been made to the left without them finally all voting for the text
», sighs a Renaissance executive.
Ecologists abstain and Insoumis vote against
Because more annoying for the executive, the environmentalists themselves, abstained from voting for this bill, denouncing a text which “
lacks
” according to them “
ambition
”.
“
This text is not good and we cannot give it environmental credit
”, explained EELV deputy Charles Fournier to Le Figaro at the end of last week.
"
An incomprehensible lack of political maturity because it is inconsistent with their programmatic line
", we denounce in the presidential camp, where it is estimated that the "
non-vote
" of this measure by the ecologists after so many concessions is a "
middle finger
”.
For their part, the rebels, like the elected representatives of the National Rally or those of the Republicans, mostly voted against this bill.
"
This text suffers from shortcomings that we consider major, particularly with regard to the structuring of industrial sectors and the training offer
", explained the LFI group in particular in a press release.
A still winding legislative journey
But the vote on this text at first reading in the lower house does not bode well for its final adoption.
Because the version validated by the deputies is in many points different from that voted by the senators - with a majority LR - a few weeks ago.
A joint joint commission (CMP) which will bring together deputies and senators will therefore be responsible on January 24 to try to find an agreement on the various divisive points of the text.
“
We will be extremely vigilant about what comes out of the CMP.
If the text takes a different direction, we will then vote against (in second reading, editor’s note)
”, warns PS MP Marie-Noëlle Battistel.
A fear shared by environmentalists, who fear the intervention of right-wing senators.
Especially since if the latter had voted for the text in its first version in the upper house, the LR deputies fiercely fought it at the Palais Bourbon.
Denouncing the "
dogmatism
" of the government, the deputy LR Emmanuel Maquet expressed on behalf of his group the strong opposition of the right on this text.
“
He is preparing a real takeover by unscrupulous promoters of renewables for an energy that is neither efficient, nor abundant, nor predictable.
“, he argued.
But on the left, we still hope to be able to improve the text during the CMP.
“
Some important aspects, such as the solarization of commercial buildings, could come back on the table
”, imagines the ecologist Charles Fournier.
For the Macron camp, despite this favorable result, nothing is certain.
And the equation remains complex to say the least.
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