The campaign continues in the National Assembly. With the examination of the bill on purchasing power, which begins Monday, July 18 in public session, then that on the amending budget to finance, among other things, these measures, the deputies will approach the two most important texts of this beginning of the legislature on a theme that monopolized the speeches and programs of the presidential and legislative elections.
A week after the episode of the Covid-19 bill where the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), the National Rally (RN) and the Republicans (LR) outvoted the government – qualified by the Following “night heatstroke” by Emmanuel Macron – this is a real test for the presidential coalition.
The stakes are all the greater since the two texts studied in the Assembly this week take up the promises of candidate Macron. The first bill provides in particular for the tripling of the “Macron bonus”, the revaluation of 4% of pensions and social minima or that of 3.5% on housing aid. The debates are likely to be even harsher, on the second text which makes up “this purchasing power pack”the amending finance bill (PLFR) whose examination is scheduled from Thursday.
1,100 amendments in forty-eight hours
If it allows the financing, up to 20 billion, of government measures, this PLFR also includes certain provisions decried on the side of the oppositions. Among them, the abolition of the audiovisual levy, a food check of 100 euros intended for eight million households, or a “fuel allowance for workers” which will gradually replace the discount of 18 cents per liter of gasoline. On all these emblematic measures, the presidential majority could be put in difficulty.
Just for the purchasing power bill alone, nearly 1,100 amendments were tabled in forty-eight hours. « In committee, the debates were not extremely fruitful because objectively, we did not have enough timeadmits, Mathieu Lefèvre, coordinator of the finance commission for the Renaissance group. Everyone tabled their amendments without consulting each other. » Discussions between the government and the presidential majority lasted until late this weekend to settle the last points of friction.
Among them, the deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance (AAH) demanded by the opposition during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, but rejected each time by the majority before the Head of State changed his mind during the presidential campaign. An agreement between most of the parliamentary groups seemed to have been reached to record the entry into force of the measure on 1is October 2023. A date that no longer satisfies opposition in view of the amendments tabled to advance its establishment. Another amendment adopted in committee against the government’s opinion plans to force the State to compensate “to the nearest euro” local authority expenditure generated by the revaluation of the index point in the civil service and of the RSA. The executive is thus forced to offer an alternative to the opposition, ready to vote for this measure valued at 1.6 billion euros.
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