The Assembly votes this Tuesday the bill, suspense on the choice of the PS

How will the left vote on Tuesday on the renewable energy acceleration bill? The answer is crucial for the government. The National Assembly will vote on the text, a vote which could be close due to the abstention of environmentalists and the hesitation of socialists. If it is a green light, a joint commission will bring together deputies and senators, a priori on January 24, to try to establish a compromise text, with a view to final adoption in February.

“There were discussions until the end and a lot of calls this weekend”, we slip on the side of the Ministry of Energy Transition, which counts and recounts the forces present before the solemn ballot at the end afternoon, at the end of this first reading. An abstention from a part of the left is enough for the presidential camp. But he would have hoped for more momentum around a text which aims to deploy wind and photovoltaic projects more quickly, and which had obtained broad approval from the Senate in early November.

“This bill accelerates renewable energy projects by several years. That’s a fact. So either the opposition groups (on the left) are consistent with their presidential and legislative program (…), or they remain in the political posture and choose the opposition in principle”, thus attacks Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

EELV “expects better”

Environmentalists have already promised a “waiting abstention” to “put the pressure on” before the sequel. “We expect better”, for example on the deployment of renewables on existing buildings, underlines the leader of the EELV Marine Tondelier party. The rebellious will abstain or vote against, and the Communists are preparing to oppose the text.

A key to the ballot is therefore in the hands of the PS. The group intends to decide this Tuesday morning between abstention and support. The government also hopes to rely on the small independent group Liot.

LR denounces a “salami” of energy texts

Because at the Palais-Bourbon, the executive quickly understood that the right would vote against this text. The LR deputies have indeed adopted a harder line than their colleagues in the Senate. They dispute “unjustified derogations granted to wind power”, “intermittent energy” and denounce a “salami” of energy texts. A bill dedicated to nuclear power arrives in the Senate hemicycle on January 17, before the future multi-annual energy program. The RN for its part castigated throughout the discussions the “nuisance” of wind turbines: “it twists the eyes and the brain”, according to the deputy Pierre Meurin.

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