The amendment to allocate 120 million euros to the departments to compensate for the increase in the RSA was voted by an alliance between the Nuts, LR, the RN and, it is unprecedented, the Horizons group. The debates, stormy at the end of the session on Saturday, will resume on Monday.
Le Monde with AFP
Despite the opposition of Renaissance deputies (ex-LRM), the National Assembly decided on Saturday July 23 in the evening to allocate 120 million euros to the departments which pay the RSA in 2022, to fully compensate for the increase of 4 % of this service scheduled by the State.
An amendment in this sense to the project of budget rectified for 2022 was adopted by 125 votes against 98, by the conjunction of favorable votes of the left, RN, LR but also – for the first time – deputies of the deputies of Horizons group allied with the majority. The 13 deputies present of this group, founded under the leadership of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, if they had voted against, would not have reversed the ballot.
“Trying to vote for the hussar of communities credits does not seem appropriate to me,” launched the president of Renaissance Aurore Bergé deputies, stressing that it is not now that the senatorial elections are played out. “You have to know how to stop, we will not subsidize all the expenses of the communities,” warned the general rapporteur of the budget Jean-René Cazeneuve, furious. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said he was “amazed to see parliamentarians who have only the word restoration of public finances to the mouth (r) of such public spending”.
The disputed amendment, initially carried by the independent group Liot, had already been adopted in committee ten days ago, with another amendment to 1.1 billion euros, so that the State compensates for communities L ‘General increase of 3.5 % for civil servants from 1 er July. This other amendment was however rejected narrowly in the hemicycle, by 114 votes to 111. Reminders of the regulations and session suspensions followed, however that the left was delighted that “the presidential minority no longer decides everything on its own”.
exit the tax on “superprofits”
After this “little psychodrama”, according to the communist Nicolas Sansu, the Mayor calmed the spirits by accepting a “work” with all the political groups on a future financial support for communities in difficulty. “The Minister has ratified that going into force is not possible” in this assembly where macronists have only a relative majority, noted the president of the finance committee Eric Coquerel (LFI). While some 375 amendments still remained on the menu, finish the examination of this rectified budget in the night seemed out of reach. Resumption finally Monday of this first reading around 5 p.m.
An upcoming point of the text has been moved: Bruno Le Maire said he was favorable to increase by 18 to 30 centimes the delivery to the liter of fuels, in a compromise with the deputies Les Républicains who called to go “further “. The support of LR, hoped to have this draft budget adopted without having to rely on the votes of the RN, also materialized by the rejection of the tax on “superprofits” with an 18 votes.
Four majority deputies abstained, including Sacha Houlié and Caroline January, who had defended the principle of this tax. One of their colleague from horizons voted for. The Minister of Economy criticized the principle of this tax: of “ideological emphasis”, according to him. The left alliance Nutpes deplored this refusal, citing the cases of Spain, Great Britain or Italy which have adopted exceptional taxes on “superprofits”.