The executive tried in some way to defend a measure more aimed at low-income households with 50 million euros provided for the issue.
But the amendment of LR Jérôme Nury was voted by 164 votes against 153, with the alliance of the Nupes, LR and RN oppositions, a new illustration of the difficulties of the Macronists in the absence of an absolute majority in the Palais Bourbon.
“Part of this Parliament does not realize the urgency”
Jérôme Nury (Orne) underlined “the urgency of the situation”, even for the “middle classes”, advocating “temporary and exceptional aid”.
“A part of this Parliament does not realize the social emergency over fuel oil,” said RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
The socialist Claudia Rouaux estimated that there are “many families who struggle to fill the deposit”, sometimes with “ten successive checks” to distribute payments of hundreds of euros.
It is not the first time for the government
Mathieu Lefèvre (Renaissance) judged that “fuel oil” is an “obvious issue” for next winter but “it cannot be dealt with on the fly with an amendment to 230 million euros whose criteria we do not know”. accurate”.
A previous quack had occurred on Saturday night with the decision of the Assembly, against government advice, to allocate 120 million to the departments to compensate for the increase in the RSA.
Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said then that he was “astonished to see parliamentarians who only have the word restoration of public finances in their mouths incur such public spending.”
Source: BFM TV
