At the end of the night, the deputies finished examining the tax reform project and voted on this text presented by the government. Among the parliamentarians present this Wednesday at 3:45 am, 293 elected officials voted in favor, 146 against.
This bill gives continuity to the text “on emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power”, which had already been approved after long debates on the night of Thursday, July 21 to Friday, July 22.
To protest against the establishment of a second deliberation on an opposition amendment, the RN deputies left the chamber before the vote on the bill. Nupes voted against and Les Républicains in favour.
End of TV license payment
Among the main measures of this new text, which must now go through the Senate, we highlight the abolition of the canon that finances public broadcasting and state funding the renationalization of 100% of EDF. This operation of 9,700 million euros aims to get the electricity production and marketing group out of its financial and industrial stagnation.
The debates, which have been intense since the beginning of this 16th legislature, have sometimes been stormy and tense.
Second deliberation on pensions
A dramatic turn of events on Tuesday: at the end of the day, MPs voted, against government advice, to release €500 million to increase pensions for retirees. But at the end of the examination of this text, the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire asked for a second deliberation. Shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the measure was abandoned by the National Assembly, in the face of criticism from the opposition.
“You are allergic to the right to retirement, you are allergic to social progress”, thus launched the communist Pierre Dharréville, his comrade André Chassaigne calling the government’s rewriting amendment a “torch”.
However, the Government had to suffer several setbacks throughout the examination of the text, with the vote in favor of supporting up to 230 million euros for heating homes with fuel oil or a amendment allowing the allocation of 120 million euros to departments to face the revaluation of the RSA.
Started this Friday afternoon, the debates therefore ended on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Its length, which is not entirely exceptional for a PLFR of this magnitude, was nevertheless criticized by Bruno Le Maire on Monday night, denouncing “endless” discussions.
This Tuesday, rebellious France responded sharply. “There is a re-parliamentation of political life”, launched the deputy from Seine-Saint-Denis Alexis Corbière.
Source: BFM TV
