Deputies and senators reached an agreement on Wednesday evening on the second part of measures in favor of purchasing power which could thus be definitively validated on Thursday by Parliament, we learned from participants.
The revised draft budget for 2022, which was under discussion in the joint joint committee (7 deputies, 7 senators), opens up 44 billion euros in credits, including 9.7 to finance the 100% renationalization of EDF. Are also planned the revaluation of the index point of civil servants, the continuation of the tariff shield on energy and the fuel discount of 30 cents per liter in September-October then 10 in November-December, among others.
Between the presidential majority and the right, common ground was found on Wednesday, after nearly two hours of discussions, in particular on the controversial subject of the possible monetization of the RTTs that the Senate wanted to make permanent.
This takeover by voluntary companies of the RTT of employees, for those ready to work more, will finally be possible until the end of 2025.
Regarding the exceptional return bonus, which the Senate, dominated by the right, wanted to reserve for low-income workers and not for the minimum social benefits, which caused an outcry on the left, there too a compromise was made. The bonus of 100 euros will be paid to the beneficiaries of the minima and also those receiving the activity bonus, the total envelope allocated being increased from 1 to 1.1 billion.
For the success of the joint commission, the president of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau had posed as a condition the maintenance of another addition of the Senate in favor of the establishment of a biometric Vitale card. This was the case, with the aim of combating fraud.
Finally, concerning aid to communities, a subject dear to the Chamber of Territories, an envelope increased to 600 million euros has been validated.
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, Jean-Ren, the general rapporteur for the budget at the Assembly, told AFP. Cazeneuve (Renaissance).
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The Republicans have advanced their main demands: lower the price of fuel, better pay for work, strengthen the fight against social fraud, welcomed her side the deputy Vronique Louwagie on Twitter.
The text will be put to the vote one last time Thursday at the National Assembly at 3:00 p.m. then at the Senate at 5:00 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 disabled adult allowance.
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 INSEE) , which had been a major topic of the presidential campaign.