Purchasing power: Senate is looking for a third way between government and assembly

Senators Les Républicains, held by the commitments of their right -wing colleagues in the Assembly, nevertheless seek to correct certain devices.

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The tension barely fell back to the Assembly, the government is now working to convince the senators. After the laborious adoption of the bill on purchasing power and the corrective budget by the deputies on Wednesday, July 27, it is the Senate’s turn to examine the two texts that make up the government’s action plan for Fighting inflation and the consequences of the war in Ukraine.

Article 1 of the bill on purchasing power, which raises the ceiling of the “Macron premium”, was adopted in public session, Thursday, July 28. The senators have limited the sustainability of this premium – beyond 2024 – to only companies with less than fifty employees. Regretting that the two texts include “mainly display effects”, Senator Les Républicains (LR) of Hauts-de-Seine, Christine Lavarde, pleads with her group for better definition of devices.

If the National Assembly, where the presidential coalition has found itself several times in the minority, added 350 million euros in additional expenses, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, promised the senators of Accept “increases in spending that is comparable”, during his speech to the gallery on Thursday at the Luxembourg Palace. “Our objective (…) is to hold the 5 % of public deficit in 2022. This must lead us to 700 million euros in additional expenses in the” package power package “. Neither more nor less”, -It explained.

“Target aid”

After having made these two bills adopted at the Palais-Bourbon thanks to the votes of LR deputies, the government must compose with the right-wing senators, who hold the majority in the Senate with their allies of the centrist group. Among the measures already adopted in the finance committee by the senators on Thursday, and which were the subject of an agreement between the executive and the LR deputies, the recovery of the tax of tax exemption from overtime of 5,000 to 7,500 euros or the possibility of monetizing RTT for employees. The senatorial right hopes to go further on these two devices by perpetuating them beyond the end of 2023.

Furthermore, still in finance committee on Thursday, the senators approved a boost of 150 euros to the beneficiaries of the activity bonus, in place of the exceptional back -to -school bonus of 100 euros intended for beneficiaries of the beneficiaries of the beneficiaries of the beneficiaries of social minima. “We must continue to erase the deleterious effects of the thirty-five hours and refuse any additional debt”, defends the boss of the Senators LR, Bruno Retailleau.

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