The deputies approved on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday the amending finance bill for 2022 by 293 votes for, 146 against and 17 abstentions. It includes in particular the removal of the audiovisual fee and aid for the fuel supply.
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The government will therefore have succeeded in passing its two texts on purchasing power. The deputies adopted on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday the second part, the amending finance bill for 2022. The text, which completes that on the purchasing power adopted last week, was approved by 293 votes for and 146 against. It includes the abolition of audiovisual fees and aid for fuel supply.
To ensure votes from the right, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, found a compromise on fuels with a discount of 30 cents per liter which is added to the discounts granted by Totalnergies in its service stations.
The text extends until the end of the year the price shield on energy prices, which allows the increase in electricity bills to 4 % and freeze gas prices at their level from October 2021.
Another flagship measure: the abolition of the public audiovisual fee of 138 euros, in accordance with a campaign promise by President Emmanuel Macron. In response to the concerns, the deputies assigned the sector a fraction of the VAT for an amount of around 3.7 billion euros.
The debate on the text was the occasion of a first breach in the majority with the vote against the opinion of the government by the Horizons deputies, the party of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, of an envelope 120 million to the departments that pay the RSA, to fully compensate for the 4 % increase in this service scheduled by the State.
The game of oppositions sometimes prevented the presidential coalition from having the last word, as during the vote of exceptional aid of 230 million euros for individuals using fuel oil as a heating means, that the government wanted Limit to 50 million euros.
Adoption last Friday at dawn, at first reading of the bill on purchasing power had authorized the tripling (at 6,000 euros) of the ceiling of the bonus purchasing power, the revaluation of 4 % of pensions and social benefits and the deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance (AAH).