He is hesitant sometimes unstable, but increasingly manifest. The pas de deux between the presidential coalition and the right at the Palais-Bourbon on the occasion of the examination of the bill on purchasing power since Monday, July 18 in public session, is emerging. A parliamentary choreography where everyone perceives their interest: the first, deprived of an absolute majority, see the group Les Républicains (LR) and its 62 deputies as an essential reserve of votes; the latter hope to influence government policy after ten years in opposition and the loss of nearly half of their contingent at the end of the legislative elections.
“With LR, we are not going to lie to each other, we can share the same philosophy on work, companies”, recognizes Guillaume Kasbarian, the Renaissance president of the Economic Affairs Committee at the National Assembly. While on the right, “we are well aware that we are the keystone of the deliberations”said the LR deputy of Aisne Julien Dive. If the bill on purchasing power seems to be able to be adopted in theory thanks to the votes of the RN and LR, the vagueness persists on the amending budget, examined at the end of the week. It contains in particular the“fuel allowance for workers”supposed to gradually replace the discount of 18 cents per liter of gasoline.
So that the vote “rocker” in its favour, the government conceded some arbitration – raising the ceiling for tax-exempt overtime, buyout of RTT by employees – to pocket the votes of the right. “There was real joint work that could be carried out on part of the text with the LRs”specifies Maud Bregeon, Renaissance deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and co-rapporteur of the purchasing power bill.
“Today, they took almost nothing from us”, retorted, however, Thibault Bazin, LR deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle, referring to the amendments from the right rejected on article 1 relating to the « prime Macron ». Ready to challenge the majority to the end, the elected LRs tabled almost half of the amendments – 419 out of 964 in total – on the amending finance bill. This effervescence on the right also betrays the weakening of group discipline, with strong individuals, free to vote. “The LRs are going to test us, they are going to want to ask for morebets Ludovic Mendes, Renaissance deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle. But you shouldn’t depend on anyone for the long term. We don’t have to sell our soul to have texts adopted that we can pass otherwise, “ believes the elected official who claims to be on the left wing of the majority.
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