The National Assembly votes the abolition of low -emission zones | EUROtoday

The National Assembly authorized, Wednesday, May 28 within the night, the abolition of low -emission zones (ZFE), which limit the circulation of sure thermal automobiles, by adopting an article of the invoice “Simplification”.

The article, launched into committee on the initiative of the Republicans (LR) and the National Rally (RN), was adopted by 98 votes in opposition to 51 with the votes of the RN-Union Alliance of the Rights for the Republic (UDR), the appropriate, Insoumise France (LFI) and a few macronist deputies.

Initiated in 2019 to restrict the emissions of advantageous particles, ZFEs are an emblematic measure of the local weather and resilience of the primary 5 -year time period of Emmanuel Macron, excluding from their perimeter sure very previous and polluting automobiles, recognized by the Crit’Air 3 or extra vignettes.

But their software is criticized on all benches, together with in macronists and on the left, by elected officers who contemplate that they exclude classes of the inhabitants who can’t purchase much less polluting automobiles.

“Everyone is to improve air quality. [Mais] We think it cannot be done at the cost of social exclusion ”supported the deputy (LR) of the 1^D Constituency of the territory of Belfort, Ian Boucard.

“The ZFEs are useless”mentioned the deputy (RN) of Gard Pierre Meurin.

“Social inequalities”

“Air pollution is at the origin of nearly 40,000 premature deaths per year. (…) And low -emission zones have contributed to lower these early deaths ”mentioned the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

It has proposed with out success within the hemicycle a withdrawal answer, inscribing within the marble of the regulation that the ZFE would solely concern the Lyonnais and Parisian agglomerations, and offering for a complete battery of hand exceptions of the communities which wish to arrange ZFE.

“With this vote, it will not be possible to do it even for those who wish”deplored the ministry in a press launch, taking ” act “ of the choice of the deputies, and deploring that left -wing deputies voted for.

On the LFI facet, the deputy of Haute-Vienne Manon Meunier deplored “A very poorly made measure, which creates a lot of social inequalities” In response to a “True problem that we cannot deny of air pollution”.

It is “A useful device that must be expanded with support measures so that their implementation is better accepted”estimated the deputy (the Ecologists) of Vienne Lisa Belluco, whose group voted largely in opposition to.

The vote on the article should be confirmed by that on your complete regulation in its entirety, nonetheless referred to by greater than 600 amendments. Some deputies additionally consider that the repeal of the ZFEs could possibly be censored on the finish of the race by the Constitutional Council as a legislative rider (a measure too removed from the preliminary textual content).