The Assembly must decide this Tuesday on the first text of this legislature on the climate issue, without the support of part of the left.
by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe
At the National Assembly, a bill can hide another. At the very moment when the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, must reveal the thorny pension reform, Tuesday January 10 at 5.30 p.m., the deputies will be gathered on the hemicycle benches for the solemn vote of the text on the acceleration of The production of renewable energy, at first reading. And, a few hours before the election of the ballot, very clever one who can predict the fate reserved for this bill, whose ambition is to catch up with France in this area. In 2021, renewable energies represented only 19.3 % of gross final consumption, below the objective, set at 23 % for the year 2020.
In the best of the scenarios for the government, it is a narrow majority that promises to be. Far from the expected plan, the executive will not be able to rely on the massive vote of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts). While the Communist Party and Ecologists have already revealed their intentions – voting against and abstention -, the Socialist Party (PS) and Insoumise France (LFI) were to decide their position on Tuesday, during their group meetings. If the socialists do not exclude supporting the text of the government, the “rebellious” oscillate between an abstention and a rejection of the text.
“There is the presentation of the pension reform on the same day which would push us to vote against, but, at the same time, there is the message sent vis-à-vis renewable energies to our electorate”, explains The deputy (LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis Aurélie found. The choice of the executive to present its pension reform the day the support of the left was hoped for in the hemicycle was not included in the macronist troops. “This will make us lose votes,” said the president (Renaissance) of the Sustainable Development Commission, Jean-Marc Zulesi. “We are not immune to an industrial accident, but we should be on a favorable vote with a few votes,” wants to believe the president (Renaissance) of the Economic Affairs Committee, Guillaume Kasbarian.
“blatant lack of ambition”
With this bill – the first in this legislature on the climate issue -, the government intended to demonstrate that it could also find a parliamentary majority with the Nuts, after six months of more or less assumed agreements with the right. The vote in early November at the Luxembourg Palace, socialist, environmental and communist senators in favor of the text seemed to consolidate this idea.
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