The groups of the majority leave the hemicycle during a pitched battle around the “dismantling” of EDF

It was the culmination of a series of incidents in the Assembly. The deputies of the presidential camp left the hemicycle Thursday, February 9, during a battle between the majority and the opposition on a socialist proposal to nationalize EDF and extend the energy tariff shield to bakers. “We must respect our Constitution. In these conditions the presidential majority refuses to continue to participate in these debates which are only a masquerade”, launched the president of the Renaissance group Aurore Bergé. His colleagues (Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons groups) then left the hemicycle under the broca and the ironic applause, leaving the Minister of Industry Roland Lescure alone on the bench surrounded by the opposition.

The deputies of the presidential camp protested against the maintenance, in a text by the socialist Philippe Brun, of a measure to extend the energy tariff shield to more beneficiaries, and in particular artisan bakers. They consider it to have no legal link with the EDF nationalization bill and contrary to the Constitution, because it adds a financial burden for the State. “This is an extremely serious precedent for our institutions, it is a very clear violation of Article 40 of the Constitution”said the general rapporteur of the Finance Committee Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance).