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The Minister of Public Service and Simplification, Laurent Marcangeli, on the benches of the National Assembly, on April 9, 2025.

Promoted by the federal government as a “Cure” obligatory to assist firms, however castigated on the left as “Anti-ecological”, The so -called invoice to ” simplification »Started to be examined on Wednesday April 9 in the evening by the deputies, who could not move much on a stormy session.

The bill, in gestation for about a year, must mobilize the deputies until the end of the week, with more than 1,000 amendments called to be studied. But only the first four of them, which all aimed to delete article 1 of the text, were able to vote on Wednesday (they were rejected), the session having been many times suspended in the hubbub.

The national rally deputies notably multiplied the speaking to denounce the events of the afternoon within the Bourbon Palace. Journalists from the media Identitaire Borders had to be exfiltrated by a gathering of support for parliamentary employees of deputies La France Insoumise (LFI), targeted by an article in this media.

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The elected officials of the National Rally (RN) denounced intimidation and insults with regard to these journalists, under the hoots of LFI deputies. “The Rally National Group is not going to settle for that the work can proceed”said deputy RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy, claiming that sanctions be taken.

Earlier, the Minister of Public Service and Simplification, Laurent Marcangeli, had defended the need for the text. “We need to cease revolving across the pot and eventually beginning an actual simplification treatment”he said, stressing that a business manager spent an average of eight hours each week “To be full of paperwork”.

“Chainsaw” versus “nail cutters”

During its passage in committee, the text was deeply altered, the deputies having notably suppressed dozens of bodies, including regional social and environmental advice (CESER), or even “low -emission zones” (ZFE) prohibited to the most polluting vehicles. The government provides for several recovery amendments.

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“The authorities shall be unfavorable, in precept, to any abolition of operators or impartial companies”said Marcangeli. “The predominant threat that awaits us on this hemicycle”he warned, “It is to present in on the one hand to the escalation of those that want to deal with with violence chainsaw and ax and, on the opposite aspect, those that are nonetheless caught between the hammer and the anvil of a type of bureaucratic sovietism”.

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The Ecologist and Social Group defended a motion of preliminary rejection of the text on Wednesday, supported by LFI deputies, socialists and communists. With 111 favorable votes but 135 votes against, it was pushed back. “The major ambition of this textual content is totally distorted”and he became “Anti-democratic, anti-ecological and anti-social”assembled the environmental deputy Charles Fournier. “It is no longer a simplification that we are witnessing, but a great liquidation. »»

“During his visit to committee, the climatosceptics, from horizons to the national rally, took part in this festival of deregulation by leading a real Trumpist offensive”also accused MP LFI Sandrine Nosbé. “You don’t like the chainsaw, we knew it. But you don’t even like the pruning sheer, nor even the nail cutting ”retorted them the macronist deputy Guillaume Kasbarian.

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