Rejection of the GRAMILLET invoice on vitality programming: post-mortem of a parliamentary sinking | EUROtoday

On Jun 25, 2025

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L’History might bear in mind this date of June 24, 2025 as one of the stunning examples of political autosabording of the V^e Republic. This Tuesday, the National Assembly rejected the invoice on vitality programming, often known as the Gremillet legislation, ending (in apotheosis!) To a number of months of a parliamentary psychodrama the place all of the protagonists competed in incompetence, outrageous postures and dangerous religion.

The textual content previous to the multi -year vitality program (PPE) was rejected this Tuesday by the deputies, by 377 votes towards 142. A “necessary” rejection, judged the Minister of Industry (and Energy) Marc Ferracci, because the debates had “distorted”. Las … he ought to have accomplished consensus, so many teams had dismantled in order that the federal government lets them debate from such a vital problem for the way forward for the nation.

Indeed, the PPE that the manager has been simmering for months, a kind of “at the same time” politically hell, supplied for such a improvement of recent renewable capacities that the consultants had frightened, doubting that France may actually, by 2035, multiply by six its photovoltaic energy (from 16 to 75-100 GW), and by twelve the wind at sea (as much as 18 GW) EPR2, on the very second when the electrification of the patina nation … In a scathing opinion, the Academy of Sciences had sounded the alarm, pointing the “overcapacity” generated by this deployment, at a “colossal”, and poorly evaluated value.

Legislative frankenstein

Senator’s invoice Daniel Gremillet (LR) was exactly designed to permit a democratic debate on these orientations. The textual content, adopted within the Senate in October, supplied 60 % nuclear within the electrical combine by 2030, and 50 % by 2050, with the development of 14 new EPR2s, whereas sustaining bold targets for renewables. François Bayrou had seen the chance to get out of the useless finish …

But that was to depend with out relying on the tactical engineering of the presidential majority. From the primary day, in committee, the deputy (PS) Marie-Noëlle Battistel deposits an modification so badly written that it leads, “by mistake”, to utterly empty of its substance article 3, which supplied for the revival of nuclear. This first (big) blunder, lastly caught up, will pave the way in which for an actual pageant.

We misplaced hours in utterly sterile political postures.Alexis Quentin

In a couple of days, the deputies rework the textual content right into a legislative Frankenstein, filled with inconsistencies and technical impossibilities. Release of guidelines for fixing the European vitality market worth – an inconceivable measure to use with out leaving the European Union; Return of EDF to the standing of public institution; reopening of the Fessenheim energy station – as we speak within the superior dismantling section, with out attainable going again; Pure and easy abolition of the targets of creating biofuels, with none different proposed to decarbonize transport … “Between three-quarters and 90 % of the majority deputies did not attend the debates, and most of the presents understood nothing”, Tance Alexis Quentin, who adopted all the CFE-Energy. Dismayed. “We lost hours in completely sterile political postures. »»

RN windfall

The highlight of the show: in a sparse hemicycle, on June 19, the right -wing deputies and the national rally managed to adopt an amendment instituting an immediate moratorium on any new wind and photovoltaic installation. A “social plan of 80,000 jobs voted in the assembly”, explodes Mattias Vandenbulcke, of renewable France, an organization which federates these sectors. Nevertheless: at the time of the vote, only twenty deputies together for the Republic (EPR) are present, two horizons, eight democrats, eight environmentalists, five socialists … in clear: less than 10 % of registrants.

“I respected all of my prenegotiation commitments with Matignon, we were constructive”, justifies the RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy, who aligns that day 57 deputies of his group. “But the amendment on the moratorium was deposited by an LR deputy [celui de l’Orne, Jérôme Nury, NDLR] ! At one point, they were all so little serious that I saw a political opportunity. The RN is for a moratorium on renewables, and we had the number of votes sufficient to pass it. I got it! »»

In the wake of the vote, Gabriel Attal, president of the EPR group, multiplies indignant declarations, denouncing an “anti-ecology axis” formed between LR and the RN. Marc Fesneau, boss of MoDem deputies, split (finally) a raging press release against what he describes as “energy chimera”. Death in the soul, they say, they will be forced to reject the text … without a word on their own responsibility in this fiasco.

An LR text of the Senate torpedoed in the Assembly by LR deputies, have you ever seen this?A deputy

“We were really not far from an acceptable compromise, however”, deplores the rapporteur of the text, the deputy Antoine Armand (EPR), pointing to the many compromises found during the debates, in particular an article providing that on the 560 terawattheures (TWh) of decarbonized electricity which should be produced in 2030, at least 200 should come from renewable sources. “But the moratorium killed the debate …”

LR Saborde

The attitude of the Republicans deserves a special mention. Members of the government coalition, they systematically voted with the RN against the government’s orientations, which they were however supposed to support. And precipitated, with their moratorium, the almost automatic rejection of the PPL. “An LR text of the Senate torpedoed in the Assembly by LR deputies, have you ever seen this?” Daniel Gremillet is not happy, they did anything, ”says a deputy, below the quilt of anonymity. The irony needs the suitable pronuclearies to lastly have … prevented the registration within the legislation of a revival of the nuclear. “Low hat”, persifles an adviser from the majority.

Indeed, the cursed PPE is found, once again, in the impasse. The government, which had promised to publish it by decree “earlier than the top of the summer season”, parliamentary shuttle or not, will it give up parliamentary debate? “We will see the attainable content material of a future PPE, however censorship stays a risk,” warns Jean-Philippe Tanguy. After letting the assembly turn into a fire fair, the executive hesitates …

Back to the decree?

The text will now be returned to the Senate on July 8, in its initial version. No one knows what will happen from the following, the government being little inclined to re -register it on the agenda of the Assembly. “The risk remains to see engraved in marble the initial orientations, the very ones that the Academy of Sciences deemed unrealistic and ruinous. No more democratic debate, way for pure technocracy, “laments one of many uncommon deputies of the bulk having assiduously adopted the debates.

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The kangaroo of the day

Answer

And who’s frightened that not one of the issues initially posed by the PPE, such because the Gremillet invoice, was finally settled: “No systemic vision, underestimation of network infrastructure needs, no reflection on the risks of excessive flexibilization of the electrical system due to renewable energies, no economic evaluation …”

“God laughs at those who deplore the effects of which they cherish the causes …” Bossuet seems to be, in conclusion of an article on a tragicomedia.

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