“We charge 200 balls for the 100 bills”, smiles Boris Vallaud. For the first time since the term of office, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) feels in a position of strength. Or at least listened to by the government, which will try to get its bill on renewable energies (ENR) passed in Parliament. Thus, the Socialist Party (PS) and its group president in the National Assembly do not rule out voting in favor of this text discussed in public session, Monday, December 5, provided that the Macronist majority makes an additional effort..
“We are putting all our weight into making this text a law that could have been written. If so, we will have no reason to oppose it.develops the deputy of the Landes. “We made a series of proposals: two in particular were heard”corroborates the deputy of Meurthe-et-Moselle Dominique Potier, who pushes the idea of better “use the river network” to produce renewable energy and to make “business parks in production areas” of ENR. “These two innovations have won the government’s agreement”says the elected official, who participated in meetings at Matignon and at the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher received the group presidents, and her cabinet worked with the various political parties. “It is true that the government seemed to want to listen. The discussion exists », admits the ecologist deputy of Indre-et-Loire Charles Fournier, who relies on the inflections made in the Senate, where the bill was almost unanimously voted. If the environmental group at the Palais-Bourbon is careful, for the moment, to reveal any instructions, it will “make it votable”. “It is the first time that there is a text where the majority cannot build with the right”, continues Mr. Fournier. MEP David Cormand, one of the thinkers of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), encourages environmentalists to “get your hands dirty and finish the job”.
“Nuclear Trojan Horse”
For the first time since the beginning of the legislature, La France insoumise (LFI) does not exclude « s’abstain ». Until then, the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon had systematically opposed all the bills of the executive. “We are between a vote against and an abstention”justifies the “rebellious” deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Aurélie Trouvou, who remains very critical of the draft law on renewable energies, which, according to her, would only be intended to “leave the hand to the market” and to “remove barriers for companies that want to invest”. “The government and the majority are attentive to our red lines, even if we are not in co-construction”, corroborates his colleague LFI from Val-de-Marne Clémence Guetté. LFI thus admits “many victories in committee”like the “preservation of biodiversity” or one “strengthening consultation”.
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