Bill on purchasing power highlights new balance of power in assembly

On the occasion of the examination of the text proposed by the government to fight against inflation, the presidential majority and the right confirm their rapprochement, while the national rally continues its normalization strategy.

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He is hesitant, sometimes unstable, but more and more manifest. The step of two between the presidential coalition and the right at the Palais-Bourbon during the examination of the bill on purchasing power since Monday July 18 in public session, arises. A parliamentary choreography where everyone perceives their interest: the first, deprived of an absolute majority, maintain the group Les Républicains (LR) and its 62 deputies as an essential voice reserve; The latter hope to influence government policy after ten years spent in opposition and the loss of almost half of their contingent after the legislative elections.

“With LR, we are not going to lie, we can share the same philosophy on work, businesses”, recognizes Guillaume Kasbarian, the Renaissance president of the Committee on Economic Affairs in the National Assembly. While at the right, “we are well aware that we are the keystone of the deliberations”, dixit the LR deputy of the Aisne Julien Dive. If the bill on purchasing power seems to be able to be adopted in theory thanks to the votes of RN and LR, the vagueness persists on the connective budget, examined at the end of the week. It contains in particular the “fuel compensation for workers”, supposed to replace the discount of 18 cents per liter of gasoline. Div>

For the “switch” vote in its favor, the government has conceded some arbitrations – enhancement of the taxed tax ceiling, RTT redemption by employees – to pocket the votes of the right. “There was a real common work which could have been carried out on a part of the text with the LR”, specifies Maud Bregeon, deputy Renaissance of Hauts-de-Seine and Corapporteur of the Bill Buy Power.

“Today, they have taken almost nothing from our home”, however retorts Thibault Bazin, LR deputy of Meurthe-et-Moselle, by evoking the amendments of the right rejected on article 1 relating to the “Macron bonus”. Loans to challenge the majority until the end, the LR elected officials deposited 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 from their vote. “The LRs will test us, they will want to ask more, bet Ludovic Mendes, Member Member of Meurthe-et-Moselle. But we must not depend on anyone in the long term. We do not have to sell our soul to have adopted adopt texts that can be passed differently, “says the elected official who claims to be the left wing of the majority.

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