A tense atmosphere and a vote recount that changes everything.
Tuesday, during a committee at the National Assembly, the deputies rejected the key article of the nuclear safety reform which involves the merger between the ASN, the nuclear policeman, and the IRSN, the sector expert .
A new failure for the government on this controversial reform, already rejected a year ago after a coalition of oppositions in the hemicycle.
On Tuesday, however, this first article of the bill could have experienced a completely different fate.
The deputy for La France insoumise (LFI) Clémence Guetté, present during the committee, published on Wednesday on X a video captured by the Assembly cameras.
It shows the president of the sustainable development committee, Jean-Marc Zulesi (Renaissance), counting the votes: those who are for this amendment to delete the article of law, and those who are against.
The sequence broadcast by the elected official, which lasts a little over two minutes and has been viewed several million times on social networks, is visible in its entirety on the National Assembly website.
The macronist shenanigans continue.
They are once again trying to merge the ASN and the IRSN, endangering our nuclear safety, without any necessity.
But VICTORY!
We reject the merger!
A must see ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/mlncdgnVoh
— Clémence Guetté (@Clemence_Guette) March 6, 2024
This vote is carried out by show of hands.
The MP finishes his calculation and gives the final score: 20 votes for, 20 against.
“Rejected,” Jean-Marc Zulesi quickly concludes.
But the first complaints are emerging.
“There is a doubt in the room,” said LFI elected official Anne Stambach-Terrenoir to the president of the commission.
I think it costs nothing to redo the vote, it's too important.
» Categorical refusal from Jean-Marc Zulesi: “There is no doubt, we continue.
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LFI deputies denounce “shenanigans”
But the rebellious elected officials, convinced that there was a counting error, want to find out for sure and are demanding a vote by ballot.
Clémence Guetté then draws out article 44 of the regulations of the National Assembly.
“Vote by ballot is legal when it is requested either by at least one tenth of the members of a committee, or by a member of the committee if it is a personal nomination”, we can read in paragraph 2 of the article.
The first condition is met and a nominal vote is taken.
Jean-Marc Zulesi then calls each member of the commission and asks them to vote again.
And the final result differs from the first.
“23 votes for, 21 against, the deletion amendment is accepted,” finally announces the president of the commission, to the applause of certain elected officials.
More people during the second vote?
Like Clémence Guetté, other deputies from La France insoumise denounced “shenanigans” on the part of Macronist elected officials.
Contacted by Le Parisien, Jean-Marc Zulesi defends himself and assures that many deputies voluntarily disrupted the counting by not raising their hands.
“Then I got trapped,” regrets the president of the commission.
“They asked for a suspension of the session, they brought people in and they reached an agreement with the National Rally.
You can come in and out pretty much whenever you want from the commission, which may explain the greater number of voters in the second ballot,” he explains.
The deputies who were in favor of the amendment to delete the article in question won the vote, by one vote.
Jean-Marc Zulesi deplores the “strategies” of the elected representatives of La France insoumise and “(
is
) surprised by the lack of republican citizenship of Deputy Clémence Guetté”.