Several important issues await Vaudois deputies during the first half of 2025. The fact remains that the most anticipated law, that on energy, could only be addressed during the second part of the year.
Initially planned for entry into force in 2025, this new energy law has fallen behind schedule and is only at the commission stage at the Grand Council. “Around ten sessions have already taken place and others are still scheduled,” explains Jean-François Thuillard, president of the Vaudois Parliament, interviewed Friday by Keystone-ATS.
If he has not had any feedback on the discussions in committee, he hopes that it will be able to finish its work “by the end of March”. Will the plenum then be able to look into the matter before the summer break? “This is the great unknown,” recognizes Jean-François Thuillard.
For the record, this energy law, often presented as the major text of the legislature, notably sets deadlines for renovating the most energy-intensive buildings and for replacing gas and oil heating.
Gym, tram and cereals
Among the files expected with a little more certainty for the first half of the year, Jean-François Thuillard cites the credit votes for the construction of a new gymnasium in Echallens and the extension of the tram between Renens and Villars-Sainte-Croix. He also says he hopes for “concrete progress” with the Lausanne metros m2 (to be modernized) and m3 (to be built).
The Froideville farmer hopes to also be able, under his presidency, to address an issue that is “particularly close to his heart”, namely the Gros-de-Vaud Regional Agricultural Development Project (PDRA), which aims to support the cereals sector. of the region.
The Grand Council should also rule “fairly quickly” on the abolition of the solidarity of ex-spouses in the face of their joint tax debt. A practice that has long been criticized, of which Vaud is one of the last cantons to practice.
The press aid package and the moratorium to maintain the paper version of the Official Notice Sheet (FAO) should also keep MPs busy in the coming months. Among the inevitabilities of Parliament, Jean-François Thuillard still mentions the wolf which, without doubt, will not fail to be talked about again.
Unclaimed objects
On the other hand, the UDC president will no longer be on the perch for the continuation of the “mammoth” file of the Lavaux cantonal allocation plan (PAC). Following the first debate, completed last June, a complementary investigation will be carried out this spring, which should give rise to new opposition. “It will be for my successor,” he says.
In general, Jean-François Thuillard notes that the Grand Council is “always behind schedule” in processing numerous objects. “I would have liked to at least address all the items submitted by deputies who are no longer active, but we did not succeed.”
The president emphasizes that most of these objects today “no longer have any reason to exist”, but that they must legally pass through the plenum. He would like to organize, between now and the end of his mandate, a few half-days where the agenda would allow these unclaimed objects to be “liquidated” as much as possible, essentially arrests.
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