2023-09-13 05:30:11
Will the very first major programming law on energy and climate (LPEC) be debated in the fall? While the working groups launched to establish the French strategy on the subject presented their conclusions to the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, on Tuesday September 12, the future of the legislative text seemed increasingly uncertain.
Provided for by the 2019 energy-climate law, the LPEC must set France’s major energy objectives in stone in order to respond to the pressing challenge of climate change, and provoke a necessary debate on how to quickly reduce gas emissions. greenhouse effect and on the place of renewable energies or nuclear power in the energy system. An essential complement to ecological planning and a way to mobilize the political world and public opinion on common trajectories.
But lost in the middle of the arbitrations of the political start, the text moves away from the priorities of the executive. Already postponed at the start of the year – it should have been adopted before July 1, 2023 – the LPEC could ultimately not be discussed in the fall: according to the Ministry of Relations with Parliament, there is no longer any room to schedule it for this deadline.
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Several bills (full employment, digital) will keep parliamentarians busy. The majority is also asked to focus on the immigration text, which should be examined from mid-November in the Senate then at the beginning of December in the National Assembly. An important deadline for the survival of the Borne government. To this agenda are added the budgetary texts. “There is no more bandwidth to establish such an imposing subject in public opinion”, confirms a source within the executive. The best possible deadline would now be a presentation to the Council of Ministers just before the end of year holidays and a first reading in 2024.
An increasingly isolated ministry
Faced with Matignon and the Elysée, the Ministry of Energy Transition appears increasingly isolated on this issue. “I have command of a bill”reaffirmed Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Tuesday, who still considers it possible to include the examination of the LPEC in the parliamentary agenda for the coming months.
Beyond questions of calendar, the reality also relates to the political situation in France. Within various cabinets and the group of Renaissance deputies, several sources believe that it would be very difficult to pass such a vast text. “It was designed in a situation of absolute majority and we are in a relative majorityexplains Pierre Cazeneuve, Renaissance deputy for Hauts-de-Seine. The subject is fundamental and we would run the risk of having climate populism from certain oppositions. »
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