Food bonus, ban on private jets or RSA from the age of 18… Green deputies have little hope of success during their day reserved for the Assembly on Thursday, proof, according to them, of the “sectarianism” of a refractory presidential camp to the compromise.
Chance of the calendar, the “parliamentary niche” of environmentalists takes place during the eleventh day of mobilization against pension reform. A telescoping which makes some fear that the hemicycle is bald on the left side during certain votes. Be that as it may, almost all of the group’s bills were either rejected or emptied of their substance during their examination in committee, presaging an identical fate in session.
“We hit a wall”
“From the moment when it is the ecologists who propose, they say no, we hit a wall”, annoyed Wednesday the leader of the EELV deputies, Cyrielle Chatelain, targeting the presidential camp, and in particular the group Renaissance macronist.
At a time when the executive advocates a “new method of dialogue”, it is “a demonstration of sectarianism”, thundered his group, which resigned itself to withdrawing several texts, such as the one on a ban on digital advertisements and bright in the public space.
Five are still on the program, such as the ban on private jet flights, hunting on Sundays or access to RSA from the age of 18, but environmentalists have no illusions about their chances of being adopted. They decided to scrap for their text “Better Eat”, completely unraveled in committee. “We have made it our core niche,” launches MP Francesca Pasquini, bearer of this text with “social, health and environmental” dimensions.
A “food premium” in the face of inflation
In this bill, which should open the ball Thursday at 9:00 a.m., environmentalists will defend a “food premium” to help the most precarious to cope with inflation, of at least 50 euros per month and per person. A device deemed too complex and too expensive by the macronist camp, which asks to leave the hand to the executive to implement a presidential promise slow to materialize.
The government assures that an “experiment” with a food check will be launched “in the very next few months”. Ecologists have not given up on leading the battle against nitrites either, within the framework of this same text “Eat better”.
They will defend a ban from 2024 on nitrate additives in all cold cuts, or at least in cooked ham, “particularly popular with children”, and in certain collective catering services.
The main chance of legislative success for environmentalists concerns the second text on the menu Thursday, aimed at facilitating the compensation of victims of “shrinkage-swelling of clay” in the soil, a phenomenon accentuated by global warming and which damages homes.