The National Assembly adopted Tuesday evening, with the support of the Socialist deputies, the bill for the acceleration of renewable energies, at the end of an evening animated by a technical breakdown of the electronic voting system.

Equipped with paper ballots, the deputies voted the text in first reading by 286 votes against 238, following the Senate which had largely supported the bill at the beginning of November.

The support of the PS and the majority of the small independent group Liot saved the government from a few cold sweats at the Palais Bourbon, while the ecologists had announced an abstention and the other opposition groups a vote against.

With AFP, the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher praised the "responsible positions" of the Socialists and Liot as well as the work of "co-construction" carried out to accelerate the deployment of wind and solar power in France. , which is lagging behind.

" It's a mess "

A mixed commission will bring together deputies and senators on January 24 to try to establish a compromise text, with a view to final adoption.

The scenario of the evening was spiced up by a technical failure of the usual electronic voting system for deputies, with buttons on their desks.

President Yaël Braun-Pivet ended up suspending the session in order to organize a ballot by paper ballots.



What cause several hours of delay and some scenes of nervousness or comical, according to taste.

There is a “half-hour queue, everyone leafs through to find their name” in the bundle of nominative ballots on the table, “a real scandal”, railed LR Hubert Brigand.

"It's a mess, I've never seen that in thirty years," quipped old-timer Charles de Courson, of the independent group Liot, while socialist Jérôme Guedj tried to speed things up by calling .

"We have succeeded," laughed the President of the Assembly, reopening the session at 9:30 p.m.

The day was busy for the executive with in parallel the presentation by Elisabeth Borne of the controversial pension reform.

And the Socialists' support for the renewable energy bill eased the pressure a bit.

"This law has been the subject of a real work of dialogue between the different political camps and with the government", estimated the deputy Dominique Potier (PS), who claims "major progress" thanks to the 70 amendments tabled by his band.

“We expect better”

Environmentalists have opted for a "waiting abstention" in order to "put the pressure on".

“We expect better”, for example on the deployment of renewables on existing buildings, underlined the head of EELV Marine Tondelier.

The rebellious voted against, worrying about "a liberalized market" with a "multitude of over-the-counter contracts", according to Maxime Laisney.

Hostile to the bill, the communist Sébastien Jumel called for not making a "gift to the government" on the day of the presentation of the pension reform.

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