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This is a marathon session, closed Sunday, February 15 at 5 am 54 am, that s’ was completed in the National Assembly discussion of the bill for the growth and activity, “Macron law.” On arrival, no fewer than 495 amendments were adopted in committee and 559 sitting, about a third filed by the opposition or minority groups. A considerable number reflecting the intense legislative work on the text of the government, even though the great starting balances, says the Minister of Economy, Emmanuel Macron, have been preserved. Are these developments are likely to move the lines before the vote of the entire text to be held Tuesday, February 17? Nothing is less certain.
A few hours before the vote, the government announced that he was “no certainty” about the outcome. According to the latest scores made by the Prime Minister advisers, Manuel Valls, and the Minister of Economy, Emmanuel Macron, the majority was not achieved, missing even a few votes. Despite the uncertainty surrounding the vote, the executive decided Monday night not to use Article 49-3 of the Constitution, which would be to adopt the text without a vote, unless a motion of censure was filed and collected a majority, leading to the resignation of the government
On the left, the last part of the text devoted to work on Sundays and labor law, has hardened the positions between the majority of Socialist Group and “rebellious”. “There is no real move” , laments Laurent Baumel (PS, Indre-et-Loire), one of their leaders.
After have hinted on Friday, a possible compromise track, the former Minister Benoît Hamon, MP Yvelines, said Sunday that he would vote against the text. And discuss the “minimum compensation when working on Sunday” the government claimed it would, notwithstanding the provided content. “The government did not want that there is the minimum compensation , he said on Sunday the Grand Jury RTL- Le Figaro -LCI. I regret it because it would have helped not only to protect employees but also to bring together socialists. “
” Snag unfortunate cohesion “
The first secretary of the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, reacted to these remarks, saying Mr Hamon “is tromp [ed] ” and that this public statement was “an unfortunate hitch in our socialist cohesion” . “Given the efforts that have been made, the compromises that have occurred, I think we should keep right and we can not vote against” Mr Cambadélis estimated. The rapporteurs of the text and the minister himself tried, throughout the weekend, to calm the situation by highlighting employee protection provisions and the “safeguards” that been laid. For some “rebellious”, they should be sufficient to justify the abstention. Quarantine Socialist deputies who had not voted the budget law will therefore not, this time, a common position, and will be distributed between the against and abstaining. Difficult, however, to place the cursor between these two positions.
Especially that adds another point of tension between the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the Minister of Economy, the delimitation of the future “international tourist areas” where businesses can open seven days a week until midnight. M me Hidalgo demanded that they be fixed after “assent of the mayor” . The minister, while ensuring that consultation will take place, maintained that they would be established by decree. “This is a democratic decline, down from the decentralizing history” , the insurgent was mayor of Paris. In the end, about 288 members of the Socialist and Allies Group, the government should be able to count on about 245 votes for, three members of the MRC who said they would not vote the text. Almost all of the 18 RRDP MPs, mostly left-wing radicals, also will vote, with one or two exceptions.
Environmentalists stop position Tuesday morning. A majority is clearly moving towards a vote against, at the end of committee work. The amendments adopted during the meeting, some carried by the environmental group, are likely to change things? “I do not know, I do not think so, although some go in the right direction , says François de Rugy, co-chair of the group. This is an omnibus bill, so it raises disparate opposition. There is also the postures related to the period, we can not deny it. “The number of abstentions on 18 members of the group should not exceed one third.
The UMP resolutely against
In the GDR group, which has 15 members, all members of the Left Front will vote against ultramarine but three members should abstain or vote for. In total, the text should raise about 265 votes left counting the two non-registered from the Socialist Group.
On the right, despite some minority voices who pleaded, like Frédéric Lefebvre (UMP, representing French people abroad) for a pragmatic approach vis-à-vis a text “positive” , the cons resolutely against, which will be virtually unanimous position the UMP. Defections should be limited to a few units. However, the position of the 30 members of the IDU group should be shared. Half of the group should opt for abstention while a dozen members should vote against and four or five.
According to the count of World , Bill should be adopted by a relative majority of the order of 270 to 275 votes. On the side of the ministry, we want to be prudent. “We are on the razor’s edge, after the vote is not acquired” , says the entourage of Mr. Macron. What maintain pressure until the end, to convince potential recalcitrant of the Socialist Group.
193 hours of debate
The bill for the growth and activity will almost triple in volume after the first reading: the original text of the government were 104 articles, it now includes nearly 300! He will need 82 hours of debate in committee and 111 hours of plenary discussion, the economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, has largely taken its part, since it will alone monopolized the floor for eighteen hours in the Chamber.
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