Nupe deputies filed appeals this Friday before the Constitutional Council against the two texts on purchasing power, denouncing measures contrary to “several principles” and “constitutional values.” The first appeal, at the initiative of the alliance’s intergroup (which brings together LFI, EELV, PS and PCF) refers to the reform of the finance bill “contrary to various constitutional principles.”
The deputies fix the “monetization of the days of recovery of working time (RTT)”, considering that the modification constitutes a “budget clause” that has no place in a finance law and that, according to them, should be framed in ” censorship of the Constitutional Council”.
They also point to the “removal of the audiovisual canon” since the proposed alternative financing mechanism (allocation of part of the VAT) “does not allow, according to them, to ensure the security of the financing of” audiovisual establishments. In the hemicycle, the group of Nupes voted against this bill for the reform of finances, which was definitively approved this Thursday in Parliament.
Council decision within one month
On the other hand, only the LFI and EELV groups presented this Friday a second appeal before the Majors against the bill of emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power.
In a statement sent, they believe that “several provisions of this bill that promote the development of fossil fuels”, such as the potential reactivation of coal-fired power plants and the start-up of an LNG terminal, “provoke a serious and manifesto to the objective with constitutional value of protection of the environment, common heritage of human beings, resulting from the Charter of the Environment of 2004”.
This Charter has been integrated since 2005 in the preamble of the Constitution. During the examination of the text, the communists, the ecologists and the rebels voted against but the socialists abstained. The Constitutional Council has one month to rule on these appeals.
Source: BFM TV
