No epilogue in sight for the examination of the amending finance bill. It is 2:15 a.m., on the night of Monday July 25 to Tuesday July 26, when the evidence is obvious to all the deputies present in the Hemicycle. The continuation of discussions on the financing of the “purchasing power package” of more than 20 billion euros to counter inflation by the end of 2022 will not go any further. Thus decided, an hour earlier, the council met at the foot of the perch: the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, the session chair, Caroline Fiat (La France insoumise, LFI) and all the representatives of the parliamentary groups. After the late adoption of Article 6 – out of a total of fifteen – the debates were to resume on Tuesday at the end of the afternoon.
Contrary to what many deputies hoped and while there are still more than 230 amendments to be studied, the elected officials have not emerged from the stalemate which characterizes the debates in the eyes of the government and a large part of the Hemicycle . The deputies, tested by four days and as many evenings of debates on the purchasing power bill, chained discussions on Friday and Saturday around the second part of this legislation “emergency”. “It is not in good faith to legislate overnight”blamed the National Rally (RN) deputy, Sébastien Chenu.
The elected representatives of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) have not deviated from their guideline. Imposing, hammering, starting again ad infinitum. In a saturated agenda, this stretching of the debates risks extending the duration of the parliamentary shuttle even a little more while the Senate must seize this text from Wednesday July 27 in the finance committee. In addition to destabilizing the initial calendar of the executive, it is the nerves of the majority that have yielded under the comedy of repetition of the interventions of the elected officials of the left and in particular “rebellious”. “I have the feeling that for a few hours, we no longer work in the service of our compatriots, castigated the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, regretting the slowdown in discussions. We are witnessing a real perversion of the democratic debate. »
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Should we speak of a blocking of parliamentary activity or of an underestimation of the new situation in the National Assembly? Basically, it is the very philosophy of this PLFR which fueled the controversies between Nupes and the presidential majority. For the LFI Chairman of the Finance Committee, Eric Coquerel, as for the elected representatives of the Union of the Left, this bill should have made it possible to “rebuild the public hospital”, to put in place “free public canteens”of “raise the salaries of civil servants by 10%”Where “to increase the activity bonus for parents of single-parent families”. However, this is not the purpose of this text, intended to adopt “emergency measures to increase purchasing power”retorted all evening Mr. Mayor and the deputies of the presidential coalition. Calls to order that did not shake the determination of the elected officials of Nupes.
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