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Renewable energy bill: deputies and senators reach an agreement in a joint committee

2023-01-24T21:38:28.251Z


The parliamentarians of the two chambers succeeded in reaching an agreement on the bill carried by Agnès Pannier-Runacher. The political equation, however, seemed complicated.


The equation was far from simple.

After a favorable vote in the National Assembly and the Senate on two significantly different versions of the text, senators and deputies met on Tuesday for a joint joint committee on the renewable energy bill, led by Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister of the energy transition.

A confabulation of nearly 4:45 during which seven parliamentarians from each chamber negotiated point by point on the various measures of the text, before reaching, a little before 10 p.m., to reach an agreement.

A “

very great victory for ecology, ecological transition and French sovereignty

”, welcomes one of the rapporteurs of the text to the National Assembly, the Renaissance deputy Pierre Cazeneuve.

A compromise which was far from won after the unfavorable vote of a large part of the LR deputies on this text in the lower house.

But as during the passage of the text in the Senate, the LR senators managed to agree with the deputies of the Macron camp.

"

Everyone took small steps aside, no big gap was made

," welcomes Pierre Cazeneuve.

Return to the Assembly on January 31

Roughly speaking, we end up with a text that is that of the National Assembly.

We are witnessing a threesome between socialists and the majority of the Assembly and the senatorial majority (dominant LR, editor's note)

”, rants as for him the deputy LR Jérôme Nury, who participated in the negotiations.

In detail, all the participants in this CMP voted for the final text, with the exception of the LR, Insoumis and National Rally deputies.

“It is the fruit of months of dialogue to fight against climate change, build our energy independence and protect the purchasing power of the French.

I salute the spirit of responsibility”

, quickly rejoiced Agnès Pannier-Runacher in a tweet.

The bill provides in particular to accelerate the procedures for the installation of wind and solar farms, then to accentuate the deployment of wind power at sea. The text resulting from this joint committee will be the subject of a vote. in the National Assembly on January 31.

Source: lefigaro

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