Four days of debates and a last night more tumultuous than the previous ones. The National Assembly adopted, Friday, July 22 at 5:45 am, the bill on purchasing power by 341 votes for, 116 against and 21 abstentions. This final session will have been marked by numerous invectives, ad hominem attacks, disputed session chairs, all interspersed with multiple adjournments and other points of order.
The voting momentum observed from the first days on this bill has not been denied. The relative majority of Emmanuel Macron managed to have one of the first major texts of this start of the legislature adopted thanks to the votes of the Les Républicains party (LR, 54 votes) and the 78 elected officials present from the National Rally (RN). Examined in committee in the Senate, from Monday July 25, the bill contains in particular the tripling of the ceiling of the “Macron bonus”, the revaluation of pensions and social minima to 4% or the 3.5% increase in APL.
The deputies of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) have marked their clear opposition to what they consider to be “a declaration of war on wages” in full inflation. La France insoumise (LFI) voted against (by 74 votes), like the ecologists (21 votes) and the communists (18 votes against and 4 abstentions). Only the Socialists abstained within the Nupes, by 17 votes and 3 against. At the podium, speakers from the left denounced, like the socialist deputy for Seine-Maritime, Gérard Leseul, a “text very far from the ambitions that its title suggests”. “You don’t want to change course, you want to make France a low-wage country”attacked the communist deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, Pierre Dharréville.
In an opposite strategy, the RN placed itself in the camp of the “constructive”, as boasted the deputy of the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy. Addressing his “Dear colleagues from the majority, dear LR colleagues, dear LIOT colleagues [Libertés, indépendants, outre-mer et territoires] »the far-right elected official estimated that his group has ” brought [sa] small stone » by voting the text.
Last-minute deal
If no member of the majority spoke before the ballot, the elected (LR) of Meurthe-et-Moselle Thibault Bazin welcomed, in the early morning, a bill “going in the right direction”citing the revaluation of pensions, the reduction of contributions for the self-employed or the facilitation of profit-sharing schemes in companies. “Corrections are finally made with the deconjugation of the disabled adult allowance”, he supported. The vote on this measure, adopted on Wednesday evening, almost unanimously except for one vote, was the only moment of parliamentary agreement observed during the week on the text.
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