After two weeks of parliamentary vacation, the deputies begin, Monday, April 28, a debate without vote about “The energy sovereignty of France”. The new energy roadmap for the period 2025-2035 must put France on the path of carbon neutrality in 2050.
This multi -year energy programming (PPE), in preparation for several years, which details consumption and production objectives in France, must be the subject of a decree, but elected officials of several groups have asked to be able to pronounce on the subject.
In mid-March, more than 160 right-wing senators and the center had also called the executive to ” give up “ to the imminent publication of the PPE, castigating the absence of “Global vision”. The PPE project plans to reduce the share of fossil fuels in energy consumption of approximately 60 % in 2023 to 42 % in 2030, then to 30 % in 2035. Breaking with the previous PPE 2019-2024, the new text takes note, on the contrary, of the revival of the atom. Faced with shielding, François Bayrou proposed this first debate, which he will open with a declaration. Another is planned for the Senate on May 6.
In the government, we hope that the exercise will not fall into “Caricatures”with “The left that only wants renewables, the right and the extreme right which does not [veulent] that nuclear “. Even if it should make it possible to clarify the positions of each, the scope of the debate will remain limited. For Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally group (RN), who will speak on the hemicycle on Monday, no question of letting these energy guidelines pass without vote. This debate “Isn’t what we asked for”told the France-Presse (AFP) agency the RN deputy, Jean-Philippe Tanguy. “Parliament is not there to debate without a vote. »»
Under pressure, the executive also proposed to include on the agenda of the Assembly a bill by senator Daniel Grémillet on energy programming, a priori on June 16, according to the office of the Minister responsible for relations with Parliament. This has already been adopted at first reading by the Senate in October 2024 and provides for a massive revival of the nuclear sector.
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The date of publication of the decree has been postponed and is still uncertain, even if the government spokesperson promised that she would intervene “Before summer”. The RN claims that the examination of this senatorial bill takes place before the publication of the decree. If not, “We will consider, we will discuss the group of censorship”reaffirmed Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
Sign that the subject is taken very seriously by the extreme right, the leader of the RN deputies had made one of his rare trips on the subject in March, visiting the EPR of Flamanville. “Let a multi -year program pass which will increase consumers’ invoices by 100 % and 30 % energy bills for businesses, it is not about it”she said in early April in an interview with The hemicycle.
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In government, it is explained that the decree is expected to launch tenders, with visibility issues for manufacturers, but that it could be corrected later, in the light of debates around the bill.
Thursday April 24, around twenty federations and professional energy organizations underlined “Emergency” speed up “Transfers of use to electricity”in order to reduce France’s dependence on imported and costly fossil fuels.