The deputies voted in the night from Thursday to Friday the bill “on emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power.” 341 elected officials voted in favor of this text, 116 against. 21 deputies abstained.
Started on Monday, the review of this bill last night turned into a fight and a chaotic debate that turned bitter around energy issues. At the beginning of this week, several measures were adopted: the increase in the ceiling of the Macron bonus, the deconjugation of the disabled adult subsidy or the revaluation of 4% of pensions and social benefits.
A test for LREM
This text, which was a test for the private presidential field of the absolute majority in the Assembly, must respond both to inflation and to the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. Now it must be complemented with a finance reform bill, whose examination will begin this Friday with, on the menu, highly questioned measures such as the abolition of the audiovisual license fee.
The project adopted by the Assembly provides for a series of measures, among which is the tripling to 6,000 euros of the tax-free bonuses that companies can pay their workers, a measure fought throughout the week by the Nupes who demand increases wages and especially minimum wage
The text also foresees various measures to face the risks of energy shortages that electrified the debates on Thursday night: it facilitates the next restart of coal-fired power plants and creates a derogation regime to accelerate the supply of gas from a floating terminal of LNG, which could see the flow of American shale gas.
In a climate of extremely high tension, the left united against these “suicidal” measures at the climatic level, while the extreme right attacked the “green ayatollahs.”
Source: BFM TV
