Jacques Serais, edited by Laura Laplaud 7:36 a.m., July 25, 2022, modified at 7:36 a.m., July 25, 2022

In the National Assembly, the debates will resume when a small earthquake hit the Bourbon palace this weekend.

The Horizons group, named after Édouard Philippe's party, played tricks on the group La République en Marche.

All the deputies present voted against the government's opinion.

A first.

The National Assembly resumes this Monday afternoon following the examination of the amending finance bill for 2022. This weekend, the deputies adopted the abolition of the audiovisual license fee and a measure which will facilitate the redemption of the days RTT for the employees concerned.

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The Assembly must also take up the proposal to increase the fuel discount from 18 to 30 euro cents at the pump, a measure applicable in September and October next.

The conditions for financing the renationalisation of EDF will also be discussed.

But the Horizons group, led by former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, played a very nasty trick on Macronie this weekend: an amendment on the financing of the RSA to the departments. 

LREM outvoted

It was a few seconds that marked the spirits in the ranks of the walkers.

LREM deputies were outvoted and this is a first.

This time, in addition to the Nupes, the National Rally and the Republicans, all the Horizons deputies present in the hemicycle at that time voted against the government's opinion. 

The Assembly therefore decided to allocate 120 million euros to the departments which pay the RSA to compensate for the 4% increase in social benefits, hence the anger of the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire: "I am amazed to see parliamentarians who, on television sets for length of interviews, have only the word restoration of public finances in their mouths who incur such public expenditure", he exclaimed.

Has the battle for the next presidential election already begun?

There is no official explanation on the side of Horizons but off the microphone a deputy assumes this strategy: it is a question, he says, "of showing that we exist, that we must be respected".

But another little music has above all already begun to make its way to the Palais Bourbon.

This vote is seen by some as the consequence of tensions between the supporters of Édouard Philippe and Bruno Le Maire.

Two fifties who make little mystery of their ambitions.

As if the next presidential battle had already begun in the Assembly.