New vote where the LREM deputies were surpassed: the National Assembly decided this Saturday night to allocate 120 million to the departments that pay the RSA in 2022, to fully compensate the 4% increase in this benefit programmed by the State.
A reform in this sense to the reformed budget project for 2022 was approved by 125 votes against 98, by the conjunction of favorable votes of the left, the RN, the LR but also, and this is the first time, of the deputies of the Horizons group ally of the majority.
However, the 13 deputies present from this group, founded at the request of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, had they voted against, they would not have annulled the vote.
“We are not going to subsidize all the expenses of the communities”
A recess followed soon after as tempers flared. “Trying to vote for the hussar of credits to the communities does not seem appropriate to me,” launched the president of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé, stressing that it is not now that the elections to the Senate are played.
“You have to know when to stop, we are not going to subsidize all the expenses of the communities”, warns the general rapporteur for Budgets Jean-René Cazeneuve.
Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said he was “stunned to see parliamentarians who only have the word restoration of public finances on their lips commit (r) such public spending.”
The discussions continue
The controversial amendment, initially presented by the independent group Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-mer et Territoires, had already been approved in committee ten days ago, with another amendment of 1,100 million euros, so that the State compensates the communities for the general increase 3.5% for civil servants as of July 1. This other amendment was narrowly rejected in the floor, by 114 votes to 111.
The rapporteur had another proposal, that of an exceptional economic support of 150 million euros for local authorities weakened by the revaluation of the RSA but also that of the index point for civil servants as well as by the rise in energy prices. But he withdrew his own amendment, prompting a series of opposing points of order and further adjournments.
Discussions on the amended budget proposal would continue for part of the evening and then resume on Monday afternoon.
Source: BFM TV
