LIVE – Emmanuel Macron continues his tour of Africa, tensions in the Assembly: follow the political news of this Wednesday

The National Assembly appointed by vote on Tuesday night the four new parliamentarians who will make up the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), including one LFI deputy and two RN. The ecologist Julien Bayou, the Insoumise Danièle Obono and the RN Bruno Bilde and Anaïs Sabatini are elected.

They will take the oath this Wednesday afternoon in the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon.

The former prime minister will be heard this Wednesday, starting at 9 a.m., by the deputies of the Sustainable Development Commission.

In fact, at the beginning of July, the Elysee proposed his appointment to the post of president of the Agency for the financing of transport infrastructure in France (AFITF). His candidacy must now be validated by Parliament.

The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt considers it “necessary to go further” with regard to the reform of unemployment insurance and outlines his ways of working, in an interview in Parisian Posted this Tuesday night.

“It is necessary to go further,” he continues. “Our compensation rules must take into account the situation of the labor market, as does, for example, Canada. When things go well, we tighten the rules, and when things go badly, we relax them, ”he explains, taking up a campaign commitment from Emmanuel Macron.

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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.

In protest at the establishment of a second deliberation on an opposition amendment, RN deputies left the chamber before the vote on the bill. Nupes voted against and Les Républicains in favour.

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This Tuesday, at the end of the day, the deputies voted, against the government’s opinion, une additional revaluation of 500 million euros for retirement pensions, in the context of discussions on the finance reform bill. But at the end of the examination of this text, the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire asked for a second deliberation.

Therefore, a new vote was held this Wednesday at 2:39 am and the government’s rewrite amendment was adopted (224 for, 121 against).

The opposition criticized that ballot, which it described as “lack of sincerity”, and minutes later the RN deputies left the chamber.

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This Wednesday, Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate, speakswho will be the guest of Amandine Atalaya at 8:35 a.m. on BFMTV-RMC.

Some 75 left-wing deputies alerted President Emmanuel Macron, who is currently visiting several African countries, including Benin, on Tuesday about the “authoritarian excesses” in this country and the “alarming” situation of political prisoners.

The elected officials mainly evoke the sentences of the former Keeper of the Seals Reckya Madougou to 20 years in prison for “terrorism” and the constitutionalist Joël Aïvo, to 10 years in prison for “conspiracy against the authority of the State” in mid-December 2021 .

Welcome to this direct dedicated to monitoring the political and parliamentary news of this Wednesday, July 27, 2022.