Jacques Serais, edited by Laura Laplaud 6:53 a.m., July 26, 2022, modified at 6:53 a.m., July 26, 2022

While the first reading of the text should have ended last Friday, the debates drag on in the National Assembly on the amending finance bill.

Debates even deemed "endless" by the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire.

"Let's get back to what is the heart of our discussion, the purchasing power of our compatriots!"

he exclaimed.

In the National Assembly, the debates on the amending finance bill dragged on.

Suspension of the sitting tonight at around two o'clock in the morning.

The deputies did not even have time to look into the revaluation of the boost at the pump to make it go from 18 to 30 centimes or even on the financing of the renationalisation of EDF.

A disrupted schedule since the first reading was to end last Friday. 

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The exercise turns into a nightmare for the walkers.

It is becoming a habit, the Macronist deputies put in a minority, this time on with an amendment defended by the Republicans (LR).

"The government has indeed provided a price shield for those who heat with gas or electricity but nothing for those who heat with fuel oil, it is deeply unfair."

Unfair in the eyes of this LR deputy.

And facing the executive, the alliance of left and right oppositions does the rest to vote for this text allocating 230 million euros in support for homes heating with fuel oil.

164 votes for, 153 against, the amendment was adopted.

The anger and exasperation of Bruno Le Maire

Walkers also trapped by the many amendments of insubordinate France (LFI).

“I would like us to talk about our firefighters”, launches an LFI deputy in the hemicycle.

Enough to provoke the exasperation of the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire late at night: "But put yourself in the shoes of one of our compatriots who see us having endless debates on the number of firefighters we need. recruit and why not the number of gendarmes, the number of police officers, the number of CRS, the number of hospital staff. Let's avoid this democratic diversion. Let's get back to what is the heart of our discussion, the purchasing power of our compatriots!"

he exclaimed.

Between reminders of the rules and other suspensions of sessions, this amending budget is definitely far from being a health course for walkers so far unaccustomed to treading water.