The executive tried to defend a measure for modest households with 50 million euros provided for this purpose. But an amendment by the Republicans planning to expand this aid was voted by 164 votes against 153.
Le Monde with AFP
The government has suffered a new setback in the Assembly on Monday, July 25, with the vote of support up to 230 million euros for households heating with fuel oil, in the context of current inflation.
The executive tried to defend a more targeted measure for modest households with 50 million euros of budget. But the amendment of the deputy of the Republicans (LR) Jérôme Nury won by 164 votes against 153, thanks to the alliance of the Nuts, LR and the National Rally (RN), new illustration of the difficulties encountered by the government , in the absence of an absolute majority at the Palais-Bourbon.
Jérôme Nury (Orne) underlined “the urgency of the situation”, including for “middle classes”, pleading for “temporary and exceptional aid”. “A part of this Parliament does not realize the situation of social emergency on fuel oil,” said Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN).
an “obvious subject” for the majority
Socialist Claudia Rouaux estimated that there were “a lot of families who have trouble filling their tanks”, with sometimes “ten checks” successive to spread the payments of hundreds of euros. At LRM, Mathieu Lefèvre judged that “fuel oil” is an “obvious subject” for the coming winter but “cannot be treated on the fly with an amendment to 230 million euros, which we do not know criteria “and which is” not precise “.
A previous Couac had taken place on Saturday evening with the assembly’s decision, against the government’s opinion, to allocate 120 million to the departments to compensate for the increase in the RSA. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said he was “amazed to see parliamentarians who have only the words of” reinstatement of public finances “to the mouth engaging such expenses”.