• The government of Elisabeth Borne has unveiled some tracks of its bill on purchasing power.

  • In a context of rising inflation, the text is eagerly awaited.

  • But without an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the presidential coalition will have to convince part of the opposition to pass this law.

Faced with soaring prices, the executive is already in a hurry.

The number one concern of the French during presidential and legislative campaigns, purchasing power should be at the heart of the first bill defended by the new government of Elisabeth Borne.

It will be presented on July 6 in the Council of Ministers with an amending budget, before entering the National Assembly.

But without an absolute majority, how can the presidential coalition get this text passed?

To prepare for the Homeric battle to come in the hemicycle, the macronists and their opponents are already advancing their pawns.

"If we say, it's our project and nothing else, we'll go straight into the wall"

So as not to offend anyone, the government has shown itself to be cautious, gradually revealing the measures of its future bill, with in particular the 4% increase in several social benefits, the inflation check, the unfreezing of civil servants' salaries, the tariff shield on energy, the rent shield, or even the tripling and sustainability of the Macron bonus.

“Faced with the exceptional rise in inflation, exceptional measures are needed to act directly on inflation but also on the income of the French”, explains Roland Lescure, Renaissance deputy (ex-LREM) from North America.

“But for it to work in this new Parliament, there is also a method issue.

If we say, this is our project and nothing else, we will go straight into the wall, ”adds the spokesperson for the presidential movement.

After the legislative slap, the macronists know that they will now be at the Bourbon Palace in their little shoes.

On this text, as on the others, they will have to give enough slack to the opposition to convince 44 deputies and reach an absolute majority.

In Macronie, we (over) play optimism on the possibility of finding a consensus, like the head of state.

“France knows how to compromise, including yours truly.

We spend our lives building solutions with people who have interests and sensitivities that are not ours.

Why wouldn't we be able to do that in the Assembly?

“Launched the President of the Republic on Friday.

"If they stay straight in their boots, it will not be a compromise but a diktat"

Still, the opposition awaits the government firmly.

On the side of La France insoumise, we announce this week the filing of a bill, which takes up the program of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with two flagship measures: the price freeze on basic necessities and fuels and the increase in the minimum wage to 1,500 euros net.

“We will decline this in amendments and we will judge on documents.

At the moment, I don't see any outstretched hands from the government.

Their measures are only inflation catch-ups.

If they stay straight in their boots, it will not be a compromise but a diktat ”, breathes Eric Coquerel, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis.

At the RN, we also defend the measures taken by Marine Le Pen during the presidential campaign: reduction of VAT on gas,

But several figures of Macronie have already swept away these proposals, like Bruno Le Maire, this Monday morning on BFMTV.

“Compromise is not denial, there is a project.

I am viscerally attached to keeping the line of our project”.

The Minister of the Economy invoked the situation of public finances to reject the measures of the opposition which he considers "too costly", recalling the objective of returning to 3% of public deficit at the end of the five-year term.

An attempt to seduce the right, in which the macronie could hope to find the necessary votes.

“We have to keep the game a little open”

“The Assembly is governable, no one wants to block for the sake of blocking, but it will be necessary to make gestures”, warns Pierre-Henri Dumont, the deputy Les Républicains du Pas-de-Calais.

The right has put on the table the tax exemption on gasoline to reduce the price to 1.50 euros per liter and the reduction of charges to increase the net salary of the French.

“The government will know our measures, we know that not all of them will be taken up, but we will see if they are really in the compromise”, adds Dumont.

Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne met with party leaders and group presidents of the National Assembly last week to move the lines.

“We have to keep the game a little open, we know that the discussions are still ongoing, and can lead to two options: either a very majority text with an opening on the amendments.

Either a text open from the start to consolidate the vote.

It will also depend on the reshuffle, ”says a macronist executive.

The entry of new personalities into the government, scheduled for the next few days, will give some clues to the tone of the future bill.

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