After the first part voted on Wednesday, the second Thursday, August 4: the French parliament has definitively adopted the rectified budget for 2022, which aims to revalue purchasing power.

The senators approved it by 233 votes against 97, with the support of the LR, centrist, RDPI groups with the majority En Marche, Independents and RDSE with the radical majority.

The left voted against.

Five centrist senators also voted against, 3 abstained, as did 11 LRs.

After a first part comprising 20 billion euros in expenditure, the rectified budget for 2022 (PLFR) opens 44 billion euros in credits, including 9.7 to finance the 100% renationalization of EDF.

In particular, it provides for the continuation of the tariff shield on energy and the fuel discount, and the revaluation of the index point for civil servants. 

"These first weeks were decisive. The adoption of three important texts is also good news for our democracy. We have built solutions with parliamentarians from the majority and opposition members from the Republican arch. We have proven that the compromise, requested by the French, was possible and accessible", welcomed Élisabeth Borne.

"I believe, as I said in my general policy statement, in a majority of projects and values," she added in a statement sent to AFP.

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"The value of work is recognized and supported", for his part estimated the general rapporteur LR Jean-François Husson, underlining the commitment of the Senate to "guarantee local authorities the means of their actions".

This PLFR, he added, "must definitely make us aware of the budgetary rigor and sobriety that Parliament and the executive must demonstrate".

No taxation of "superprofits"

Jean-Claude Requier, president of the RDSE group, noted "a deterioration in the public balance of more than 15 billion euros".

Claude Malhuret, president of the Les Indépendants group, saw in the monetization of RTT the possibility for employees "to increase their remuneration through their work".

The centrist Sylvie Vermeillet, for her part, regretted that Parliament had not introduced a tax on "superprofits", considering that "to ask for an effort of solidarity (...) from companies which have generated exceptional profits, even though the 'State has massively subsidized the economy in the context of the Covid epidemic, is right'.

The left denounced "the convergence" between the right and the presidential majority, which "will undermine the interests of the working classes one after the other", according to the president of the CRCE group Eliane Assassi.

Ecologist Daniel Breuiller castigated "the agreement between two liberal visions".

The Socialists voted against "serious social setbacks", in the words of their leader on this text, RĂ©mi FĂ©raud. 

For the majority RDPI En Marche, Alain Richard judged that "the government has been both responsible and attentive" and "has found partners for dialogue".

With AFP

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