The Gigabyte Tax Was Voted by One Vote: Two LFI MPs Said They Had the Wrong Button.
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Adopted last Friday with a single majority vote, the tax on downloaded gigabytes is going through a rather unlikely turnaround. Two Members of La France insoumée would have voted in favour by mistake, while their votes precisely allowed the text to pass.
The amendment introducing a tax of 5.5 cents per gigabyte could finally not pass last Friday. Éric Coquerel, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said that he had voted in error in his favour and called for the correction of his vote as well as that of another Member. The bandwidth tax [...] Article Bandwidth tax: two Members are wrong to vote, the future of the amendment more than unknown has been published on Universe Freebox
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Eric Coquerel (LFI) claims to be wrongly buttoned by voting on Friday 30 October the 5.5 cents per gigabyte tax. A note from the community on X recalls that he had nevertheless co-signed a similar text in 2024. The echo of the amendment could well kill the project in the egg. While the National Assembly has
Eric Coquerel disavows the unsubstantiated vote that allowed the gigabyte tax to be adopted in the National Assembly, pleading a simple error of manipulation. A fragile defence, while his own group proposed a measure almost fifteen times heavier two years ago.
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