The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, wants to make the text Lopmi the main milestone of his action, but his outcome will depend on the side towards which the majority leans.
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What will happen to the Orientation and Programming Law of the Ministry of the Interior (LOPMI)? The text must mark the great work of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who intends to make it a tool for modernizing police and gendarmerie services without equivalent since the vast reforms undertaken during the 1980s by Pierre Joxe, distant predecessor and claimed model of the current tenant of Place Beauvau.
This “unprecedented strengthening in the history of the Ministry of the Interior”, as Mr. Darmanin wrote to the Synergie-Officers union, on January 11, provides for an increase of 10 billion euros in the ministerial budget, To which should be added an additional 1 billion euros per year for five years, to finance in particular the rise in power of the fight against cybercuence, modernized equipment and the creation of eleven new CRS and mobile gendarmes units.
m. Darmanin was initially planned to present this text in July or September, largely resulting from the conclusions of the Safety Beauvau discussion cycle between February and July 2021, for a vote scheduled before the end of the year. But respect for this calendar may have been reaffirmed by the minister during a meeting with the police unions, on May 31, he now appears to say the least optimistic, given the results in the second round of the legislative elections: the Political volatility of the new assembly compromises the adoption without a blow hoped for by the Minister.
Ecueil of constitutionality control
For Mr. Darmanin, subject to the need to see the law passed by a large majority, the main danger comes naturally from the left. With 72 elected officials, “rebellious” will not even have to convince their environmental, communist and socialist allies to join them to reach the quorum of 60 deputies necessary to seize the Constitutional Council “if the text is proposed as it is , without prior rewriting “, predicts Ugo Bernalicis, the” M. Safety “of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) and Deputy of the North.
The pitfall of constitutionality control is not a harmless threat. In 2021, the members of the Constitutional Council had already found no less than seven provisions of the very controversial law “global security”, including the emblematic article 24, which provided for penalizing the “malicious” dissemination of images of forces of forces order. To avoid such a risk, the judicial component of the measures provided for by the LOPMI – or half of the provisions, centered on the simplification of the criminal procedure – could be revised downwards, according to the Ministry of the Interior, “in order not to Not interfere with the conclusions of the States General of Justice “, whose restitution, initially fixed at the end of April, was finally postponed.
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