After four days of discussions, and after a whole night of stormy debates, the 478 deputies present in the hemicycle of the National Assembly adopted at first reading the emergency bill for purchasing power, Friday July 22. This protean text should mitigate the effects of inflation and the energy crisis. “The spirit of responsibility prevailed to protect our fellow citizens”reacted the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, on Twitter after the vote, while this symbolic text served as the first test for the executive, which lost its absolute majority at the Palais-Bourbon during the legislative elections.
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Lhe text was approved by 341 votes for, 116 against and 21 abstentions. The majority alone brought 199 votes in favor (136 Renaissance, 37 MoDem, 26 Horizons).
Seventy-eight RN deputies present, as announced, voted, unanimously, the text, welcoming “conquests of meager but real gains in purchasing power”from the revaluation of pensions and social benefits to the increase in the ceiling of the “Macron bonus”. “In responsibility”the Republican MPs, also unanimous, voted for measures that will “in the right direction”even if they are “insufficient”.
The majority of Socialist deputies, including their president, Boris Vallaud, abstained and only three voted against the bill. The text is “far, very far from the ambition that its title suggests”, criticized Gérard Leseul on behalf of the group. Communists also largely rejected the text. And, sIn surprise, the elected representatives of La France insoumise unanimously voted against.
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