Six months after his arrival in Matignon, the Prime Minister, who always undergoes the shadow of the Elysée on this file, must defend three texts before the Parliament.
by Matthieu Goar
For months, this place has punctuated its weeks. Interminable debates between its relative majority and white-heated oppositions, tight votes after negotiations on its bills, announcements of 49.3 when the situation is blocking … Six months to day after entering Matignon, Elisabeth Borne could pass This symbolic date elsewhere than at the National Assembly? Wednesday, November 16, the Prime Minister presented her strategy in terms of energy policy during a debate without vote.
A short -term hot topic, with the explosion of prices and supply problems, due, in particular, of the war in Ukraine and the maintenance of several nuclear reactors. But also a long -term file, since France gives itself the ambition to become the first major industrial nation to get out of fossil fuels. “We must therefore accelerate our ecological transition (…) and decarbonize our lifestyles and our economy,” warned the government’s heading. Before declining the three levers on which she intends to rely: sobriety, “because the best energy is the one we do not consume”; a decarbonized production, thanks to nuclear and renewable; and innovation, with hydrogen.
claimed this summer by the senators, who debated it on October 12, this discussion took place before a half -empty hemicycle, where the oppositions played their score. The environmentalist Julie Laernoes (Loire-Atlantique) criticizing “the eternal policy of energy drunkenness” of the government and its “deleterious stubbornness” on nuclear. Olivier Marleix, the president of the Les Républicains group (LR), who set up a commission of inquiry into the loss of energy sovereignty of France, castigating on the contrary “the abandonment of the nuclear sector” and “the dismantling of ‘EDF “, under the eyes of an impassive Prime Minister.
” We must no longer reason with block by block “
Energy will have been one of the major challenges of the first months of a Prime Minister who is also responsible for ecological planning. Before a text on nuclear and the vast project of the multi -year energy programming (PPE), two debates planned in 2023, the government will have a first legislative pitfall to be crossed quickly.
Admittedly, the bill relating to the acceleration of the production of renewable energy was voted almost unanimous in the Senate, Friday, November 4. While France is the only European country not to have achieved its objectives in this area, the LR senators have agreed to return to two of their requirements concerning wind turbines: the right of veto of the mayors and the fact of posting their installation to Over 40 kilometers at sea. But since then, some have regretted having renounced. And the LR group in the National Assembly does not seem to want to be as accommodating.
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