2023-07-19 17:32:06
The Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Béchu (in the center), during questions to the government, at the National Assembly, in Paris, July 18, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD”
“This bill is not a text on the causes of urban riots. » From the first minutes of the examination in the National Assembly of the emergency bill aimed at rebuilding buildings damaged during urban violence, the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Béchu, closed the door to any debate on the responses of the executive in the face of the conflagration of the districts. These will come later ” in September “, he assured, Wednesday, July 19, before the deputies of the Economic Affairs Committee, who adopted the government text by a large majority. Only the National Rally (RN), La France insoumise (LFI) and the ecologists abstained. The bill must now be debated in the Hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon, from Thursday.
Tuesday, it was the senators who unanimously adopted this text of three articles authorizing the government to legislate by ordinances in order to derogate in particular from certain rules of the town planning code. Without allocating additional funds, it should make it possible to speed up reconstruction work “buildings degraded or destroyed during the urban violence that occurred from June 27 to July 5”, following the death of Nahel M. in Nanterre, shot at close range by a policeman.
The draft law also provides for the simplification of public procurement procedures for local authorities. Article 3 also allows them to recover VAT from the current year of the work undertaken, without waiting for the current two-year period. An amendment from the executive aimed at extending this derogation to public facilities (roads, street furniture, etc.) was also approved by the elected officials of the Luxembourg Palace on Tuesday. “Weeks, even months, can be saved with these procedures”said Mr. Béchu.
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Wanting to ensure a smooth passage through the Senate, the government withdrew article 4 initially included in its text, which provided for derogation from the rules concerning the repair of degraded condominiums. A red line for the senators Les Républicains (LR) who obtained his withdrawal. This bill supplements a circular signed by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, on July 5, whose regulatory provisions cover 95% of the various degradations observed throughout the territory.
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During debates in committee in the Assembly on Wednesday morning, opposition deputies called on the executive not to dispense with a diagnosis and political solutions. “As long as we only respond to consequences, causes will continue to produce the same effects over and over again”, lamented the ecologist deputy of Hauts-de-Seine Sabrina Sebaihi. The vice-president of the study group “Towns and suburbs” in the Assembly, believes that the government has not “neither political vision, nor even the breath of a new idea in the face of this problem which belies the motto of our country every day”.
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