Green deputies failed Thursday to obtain a "food bonus" or even a ban on private jets, but they signed a victory with the vote of support measures for owners of cracked houses in connection with global warming.
The examination of the ban on private jet flights, carried by MP Julien Bayou to "bring the rich back to Earth" and make them contribute to the ecological transition, was interrupted before its end, the day reserved for ecologists at the National Assembly to end at midnight.
But the text was headed for a clear rejection. And the same fate was promised to the ban on hunting on Sundays or the opening of access to the RSA from the age of 18, also on the menu of this "parliamentary niche", but not debated for lack of time.
The environmentalists nevertheless came out with "a great victory", after the adoption at first reading (115 votes against 9) of a text carried by the deputy Sandrine Rousseau.
The bill, which must now be examined by the Senate, modifies the criteria for recognizing the state of natural disaster. The aim is to increase the number of municipalities affected by the phenomenon of shrinkage-swelling of clay soils, causing costly damage to houses.
To "rebalance the relationship between the insurer and the insured", the text establishes a "presumption" according to which this phenomenon is the "determining cause" of damage, as soon as a state of natural disaster linked to a drought is well-known.
"I am very happy for people who have cracked houses, it will change their administrative and compensation path," reacted to AFP Sandrine Rousseau, moved after the vote.
In the hemicycle, she had described the "nightmare" of the victims and stressed that "10.5 million houses" were in France in an area exposed to these risks.
The deputies of the presidential majority, who abstained for the most part, and the government considered that some of the measures did not come under the legislative.
Others will "extend the compensation periods" and "increase insurance premiums, to the detriment of the insured", warned the Minister in charge of SMEs, Olivia Grégoire.
Before this success, environmentalists believed for a time to limit the damage around their first bill of the day, entitled "Eat better", despite the outright rejection of its flagship measure, a monthly "food bonus" of 50 euros per no one for the most precarious.
The government had obtained that the ball be returned to it to support experiments with food "vouchers", a presidential promise which is slow to materialize. But amendments from the left, adopted against the advice of the executive, then incorporated price-blocking measures into the text.
Environmentalists had hailed a "victory", before becoming disillusioned with the final rejection of the text in its entirety, by 138 votes against 121. The presidential camp indeed beat the recall of its troops to oppose these measures, including the Renaissance deputy Guillaume Kasbarian castigated "Marxist inspiration".
The rejected bill also contained a ban from 2024 on nitrate additives in cold meats, or at least in cooked ham, "particularly popular with children".
"Nitrite kills the French, and it kills the poorest", launched in the hemicycle the deputy MoDem Richard Ramos, who supported the measure.
After an opinion from the health agency Anses confirming the link between exposure to nitrites and the risk of cancer, the government asked manufacturers at the end of March to lower the doses in cold cuts. But associations, such as the League Against Cancer, are asking for an outright ban.
The leader of the environmental deputies, Cyrielle Chatelain, deplored the opposition of the presidential camp, and in particular of the Renaissance deputies, to almost all the proposals put on the table by her group on Thursday.
"There is no new method from the government, it continues to reject absolutely everything that does not come from it," she said annoyed.
04/07/2023 00:36:35 - Paris (AFP) - © 2023 AFP
