An amendment was passed by Nupes, LR, RN and Horizons, putting the presidential coalition in the minority. Bruno Le Maire said he was “stunned” to see parliamentarians “engage in such public expenditure”.
New vote where LREM deputies were outvoted. The National Assembly decided on the evening of Saturday July 23 to allocate 120 million to the departments which pay the RSA in 2022, to fully compensate for the 4% increase in this benefit programmed by the State. An amendment to this effect to the amended draft budget for 2022 was adopted by 125 votes to 98, by the conjunction of favorable votes from the left, the RN, the LRs but also, and this is the first time, from the deputies of the group Horizons ally of the majority. The 13 deputies present from this group, founded at the instigation of former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, if they had voted against, however, would not have overturned the ballot.
A recess followed soon after as tempers flared. “Trying to vote the hussar of credits to communities does not seem appropriate to me“Launched the president of the LREM deputies, Aurore Bergé, stressing that it is not now that the senatorial elections are played. “You have to know when to stop, we are not going to subsidize all the expenses of the communities“, warned the general rapporteur of the Budget Jean-René Cazeneuve, furious.
The amendment adopted in committee 10 days ago
The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said to himself “amazed to see parliamentarians who have only the word restoration of public finances in their mouths incur such public expenditure“. The contentious amendment, initially brought by the independent group LIOT, had already been adopted in committee ten days ago, with another amendment to 1.1 billion euros, so that the State compensates communities for the general increase 3.5% for civil servants from 1 July. This other amendment was narrowly rejected in the hemicycle, by 114 votes against 111.
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The rapporteur had another proposal, that of exceptional financial support of 150 million euros for local authorities weakened by the revaluation of the RSA but also that of the index point for civil servants as well as by the rise in energy prices . But he withdrew his own amendment, prompting a series of opposition points of order and further adjournments. Debates on the amended draft budget were to continue for part of the night and then resume on Monday afternoon.
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