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The National Assembly unanimously approved, during the MoDem parliamentary niche this Thursday, at first reading a text allowing spouses convicted of murder or attempted murder of a spouse to be deprived of inheriting from their victim.

“We are putting an end to an injustice,” said Bruno Le Maire on X. 

The National Assembly unanimously approved Thursday at first reading a text proposed by the MoDem allowing spouses convicted of murder or attempted murder of a spouse to be deprived of inheriting from their victim.

The text, consensual, was the last proposed by the centrist group as part of its “parliamentary niche”.

It was approved by all 78 voters.

The question of rental taxation, a subject of discord among the majority

The Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, welcomed a text putting an end to an "unfair situation", while in "the state of the law, the spouse who caused or attempted to cause the death of his spouse can , without hindrance, take advantage of the matrimonial advantages inserted in the marriage contract.

Another article of the text plans to extend the cases where the tax administration can exempt a person separated from their spouse from being joint and several with their debt, such as when the latter is guilty of fraud or domestic violence.

“We are putting an end to an injustice,” said Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on X.

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The three other texts proposed by the MoDem were approved without difficulty.

Thus a proposed resolution on housing, even if the oppositions castigated the "hypocrisy" of the centrists, who chose a text without binding value.

This proposed resolution invites the government in particular to take tax initiatives to “promote long-term rentals in the private rental stock, the construction of new housing and the renovation of the existing stock”.

This question of rental taxation is a bone of contention among the majority, with many deputies from the presidential camp calling for an increase in taxation on short-term rentals, despite the reluctance of the executive.

The president of the MoDem group, Jean-Paul Mattei, invoked "the absolute necessity of rebuilding a coherent and effective housing policy so that the year 2024 is the year of revival", and hopes that this priority "shared among many benches" is also "that of the new government".