Let’s get back to serious stuff. The deputies return to the hemicycle on Monday with potentially explosive texts so that the presidential majority and the opposition meet to block.
“We are not necessarily fresh, but we are ready. We are not going to lie to ourselves, we are going to face very turbulent weeks”, advances the deputy Prisca Thevenot (Renaissance), to BFMTV.com.
“We arrived at the main course”
If deputies had left the Palais-Bourbon “tired and washed up” in August as one elected official told us, after heated debates with the Rallye Nationale and Insubordinate France, the coming months promise to be even more sustained.
On the debate menu this Monday night: the unemployment insurance reform for which the left has already considered scrapping. In political difficulties since the Adrien Quatennens affair and the Julien Bayou affair, the Nupes MPs will want to throw all their forces into battle.
Marine Le Pen is in a similar logic and intends to win points in public opinion by scrapping the budget that reaches the chamber at the end of October in which she sees “the marker of a policy” that “defies”.
“When we think about it, we tell ourselves that the month of July was the aperitif and that we have arrived at the main course”, translates the deputy (Horizons) Frédéric Valletoux.
Elected officials present “Friday night at 11 pm”
In a context of relative majority for the presidential majority, where each vote counts to get the texts approved, the deputies know that they will not have the right to make mistakes. Specifically, this means that the maximum number of elected officials must be present at the meeting, regardless of the day of the week or the time.
“With a large number of deputies for the most part, you have a rotation system that puts a lot of pressure on the elected representatives of Île-de-France. There, the deputy who lives in his mountains, 8 hours by road from Paris, also will have to come and sit down on Friday night at 11 p.m.,” the parliamentary adviser to a minister translates bluntly.
Aurore Bergé, the president of the Renaissance group, has already set the tone in the columns of the Parisianasking parliamentarians not to leave their seats during the session even to go…to the toilet.
Ministers “not boasting”
It is that the executive has kept bad memories of a summer episode. the bill about covid-19the first from the beginning of the term, he had almost been rejected before his examination even began.
In question: very few macronistas elected to counter RN deputies who had voted for a motion of censure presented by insubordinate France.
The government had finally saved its text with only a dozen votes, and thanks to the absence of green deputies. Enough to predict difficult times in which Renaissance will have to face very tight votes.
“We remain very vigilant, we take the texts article after article as we seek to mobilize our elected officials. We are not really in the bravado,” acknowledges a member of the entourage of Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor, very exposed in the coming weeks.
“Running Through the Halls of the Assembly”
Enough to reassure? It is not certain, according to Fadila Khattabi, president of the social affairs commission, who predicts a similar situation in the coming weeks.
“We will have to work both in committee on the social security budget and be in the chamber to vote on the finance bill. We will have to run through the corridors of the National Assembly. It can quickly become unsustainable,” worries the deputy-elect. of the Gold Coast.
The threat of dissolution
Added to this situation is a new equation: that of the threat of dissolution put forward by Emmanuel Macron in the event that the pension reform is blocked next winter.
If the maneuver remains unlikely, it puts pressure on MPs who, in addition to their assiduous presence at the Palais-Bourbon, must continue to plow their constituency.
“We will continue to gain ground, even with night sessions. But surely we will do it differently with an election in 6 months and in 4 and a half years”, releases a deputy from Módem.
Aware of the need to support her troops who will be put to the test, Elisabeth Borne will practice a hug therapy session on Monday night in Matignon around a back-to-school drink. Probably before putting on a cape on Tuesday morning during the group meeting.
Source: BFM TV
