Renewable energies: the government will have a majority, wants to believe Olivier Véran

Europe1 .fr with AFP 1:55 p.m., November 2, 2022

Government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Wednesday that he was hopeful of finding a "majority in the National Assembly to develop renewable energies" and adopt the bill which is coming to the Senate.

"I cannot imagine for a second that we do not have a majority in the National Assembly to develop renewable energies in our country", replied Olivier Véran at the end of the Council of Ministers.

"It is a concern of everyone, whatever the political idea that may be that of each parliamentarian: when we talk about building fifty offshore wind farms, multiplying by ten the solar power in our country, getting out of dependence on carbon energies, I believe that the path to consensus can be identified", added the minister.

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"You have in particular a few parliamentary groups which are very focused on the ecological question and renewable energies, I imagine that in this area, political politics will give way to the general interest", he insisted. .

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Not seeing how parliamentarians who have "ecological fiber" could vote "against a text that advocates renewables", the spokesperson "prefers to consider that there will be a majority in Parliament on this important text".

The Senate with a right-wing majority is working from Wednesday in first reading on the bill to accelerate renewable energies (EnR) carried by the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

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In the midst of the energy crisis, this text aims to make France catch up on its great delay in renewable energies by simplifying administrative procedures and accelerating the development of solar energy and wind power at sea. Energy transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, warned Wednesday against "political postures" on this text.

But the recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass in force is at this stage "not on the agenda", she specified, on France Inter.