Food bonus, ban on private jets or RSA from the age of 18: the green deputies present their “parliamentary niche” this Thursday. Specifically, they have in their hands the agenda of the National Assembly for one day, which allows them to submit texts to the vote of the deputies.
But the group chaired by Cyrielle Chatelain has little hope of achieving an absolute majority for its legislative proposals. At issue, according to the Greens: the “sectarianism” of the presidential field, refractory to compromise.
“We took a wall”
Coincidence of the calendar, the session takes place during the eleventh day of mobilization against the pension reform. A telescopic that raises fears that the hemicycle will go bald on the left side during certain votes.
Be that as it may, almost all the group’s texts were rejected or emptied of substance during their committee examination, portending the same fate in the session.
“From the moment that it is the environmentalists who propose, they say no, we hit a wall,” Cyrielle Chatelain annoyed, pointing to the presidential field, and in particular to the Macronist Renaissance group.
“Sectarianism”
At a time when the Executive is advocating a “new method of dialogue”, it is “a demonstration of sectarianism”, thundered his group, which resigned itself to withdrawing several texts, such as the prohibition of digital advertising and glossy in the public space.
Five are still on the agenda, such as a ban on private jet flights, hunting on Sundays or access to RSA from the age of 18, but environmentalists are under no illusions about their chances of being adopted.
However, they decided to scrap their “Better Eat” text, completely botched in commission.
“We have made it our niche heart”, launches the deputy Francesca Pasquini, bearer of this text with “social, health and environmental” dimensions.
In this bill, which should open the ball on Thursday at 9:00 a.m., environmentalists will defend a “food voucher” to help the most precarious to face inflation, of at least 50 euros per month and per person.
A device considered too complex and too expensive by the Macron camp, which asks to give the executive a hand to implement a presidential promise that is slow to materialize. The Government assures that an “experiment” with food checks will be launched “in the coming months.”
“The environmental group will have me by their side”
Environmentalists have not given up on leading the battle against nitrites either, within the framework of this same text “Eat better”. They will defend the prohibition from 2024 of nitrate additives in all sausages, or at least in cooked ham, “especially popular among children”, and in certain collective catering services.
“The environmental group will have me on their side” on this issue, Modem deputy Richard Ramos announced. But “the struggle is violent, because behind it, as in tobacco, as in alcohol, is money.”
Following an opinion from the Anses health agency confirming the link between nitrite exposure and cancer risk, the government asked manufacturers at the end of March to lower the doses in cold cuts.
But the associations ask to go further.
“More than 4,000 cases of stomach and colon cancer could be avoided in France. There is no acceptable dose in our diet,” estimate the League Against Cancer and the Foodwatch association.
An ecology that is not “punitive” but “protective”
The main possibility of legislative success for environmentalists lies in the second text on Thursday’s menu, aimed at facilitating reparation for the victims of the “contraction-swelling of the clay” of the soil, a phenomenon accentuated by global warming and which damages the households.
It would “radically change the balance of power between insurers and insureds”, who today feel impotent and “drown in procedures”, argues Sandrine Rousseau, bearer of this text that must demonstrate “that ecology is not only punitive, but also protective “.
Since the start of the legislature, the “parliamentary niches” of the oppositions have often soured. That of the Insoumi had ended in a particularly incandescent climate, after the presidential field played the clock to prevent the vote for the reinstatement of unvaccinated caregivers.
Source: BFM TV
