The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, at the National Assembly on September 29, 2020. -

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The government has just passed an important stage in the implementation of the recovery plan.

While the health and economic outlook continues to darken, the National Assembly voted on the night of Monday to Tuesday the billions of euros of the text, supposed to allow France to bounce back from the recession.

It was adopted by a show of hands with the support of the right LR.

A solemn vote of the entire budget is scheduled for November 17, before its consideration in the Senate, then a final adoption by Parliament no later than December 18.

For the executive, the crisis is such that it was necessary to ask the deputies to open wide the spending tap.

The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire confirmed in the hemicycle “negative growth in the fourth quarter of 2020”.

Above all, "if new health measures were to be taken in the coming days, we will propose to increase the support credits for our economy", in "December", for the "second reading" of the draft budget.

Creation of a monitoring committee

Of the 100 billion euros announced from 2020 to 2022, the “recovery plan” mission aims to release 22 billion credits in 2021, around three “pillars”: “ecology”, “competitiveness” and “territorial cohesion” .

“The big challenge is to deploy the credits.

(…) And from the first six months, ”insisted budget rapporteur Laurent Saint-Martin (LREM).

MEPs also voted to set up a committee to monitor the execution of this stimulus budget.

Bruno Le Maire has set "the objective of disbursing 10 billion euros in 2020 and 42 billion euros in 2021".

🔘Amdt 868 - Sometimes the crisis has a good back!

The recovery can not be an alibi for current expenditure!

Ministries make "their market" to install a certain number of expenses having nothing to do with the recovery.

Let's put these credits back in their place in the general budget!

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- Eric Woerth (@ericwoerth) October 26, 2020

These are "quite gigantic sums", but also "a government communication tool", however noted, on the right, Eric Woerth (LR), co-rapporteur of this specific budgetary mission.

"Several measures have no connection with the recovery," he regretted, citing funds for the development of "shared gardens".

Despite "advances", Charles de Courson (Liberties and Territories) for his part regretted the "artifice" of a plan of "so-called 100 billion", thanks to a "mixture of figures", over two years.

He also considers insufficient "support for the most precarious", two days after the government's announcements against poverty.

The problem of counterparts

For his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated a "sprinkling", "without any social or ecological conditionality" for companies helped by this recovery plan.

This discussion on the counterparts was also the subject of debate even in the majority.

Finally, the “marchers” voted for an amendment asking companies with more than 50 employees “to improve their extra-financial performance in ecological matters, parity and governance”, with indicators, including “an emission report of greenhouse gas ".

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