On paper, this “EnR” bill should bring together a large part of the political class: developing renewable energies, apart from RN, everyone is in agreement. It remains that it is badly to know the parliamentary game: “This is the most difficult text“, confides a minister. No one knows what he will look like in the end…
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Concretely, this bill should make it possible to accelerate the installation of renewable energies and nuclear power on the territory. Wind projects could halve the time needed for a new project. “It is a dense, complex text“, deciphers a macronist in the Assembly and that is what makes her vote very uncertain. Especially since it is the Senate which will study it first from next Wednesday. The senators, mainly on the right, are less focused on renewable energies: “ENR is not the alpha and omega of energy”, warns a group president.
Some are thus trying to rework the text by giving, for example, more powers to mayors to accept or not the establishment of energy projects. An idea which is not free from political ulterior motives, a few weeks before the senatorial elections.
It is therefore to the left that the government is turning. According to information from franceinfo, discussions are scheduled for Wednesday, October 19 with elected socialists. “We are ready to take steps on biodiversity“, explains the executive. But beyond the PS, environmentalists, who denounce the government’s choices on the climate, will they vote for this text? Within the majority, we are preparing: “We will quickly see the contradictions of the ecologists”, mocks someone close to the President. At best, the government hopes to win an abstention from the Greens.
In this context, can this law really be passed? The government is condemned to obtain a majority between a left which will find that it does not go far enough and a right which considers that it goes too far.
A counselor warns:The danger is not what’s in the text, but all the postures around it“. The executive finds itself on a crest line, and there is no question of issuing a 49.3 on this law. Outside the budget, the majority is only entitled to a passage in force and Macronie reserves it possibly for pension reform…