The text will be presented in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, February 1. The executive thought they had loved the Republicans with several restrictive measures. Eric Ciotti, on the contrary, sees it as the opportunity to appear as a “opposition party”.
by Matthieu Goar
A very complicated folder can hide another. In the middle of the vast chessboard that has become French political life, players are currently focused on pension reform. But another big piece of the beginning of 2023, the bill “to control immigration, improve integration”, could undergo the consequences of current strategies. This text will be presented in the Council of Ministers, Wednesday 1
In perpetual quest for absolute majorities, some executive advisers already imagine a black scenario for this reform that the leaders of the right do not want to support. Some predict an appeal in article 49.3 of the Constitution, others go so far as to evoke a motion of potentially deadly censorship for the government of Elisabeth Borne. “If you ask me who will vote for this text, it will happen in June, so we will make text after text,” the Prime Minister said carefully, Monday, January 23, during her wishes before the press.
In the fall, the executive thought they had found the right balance on this sensitive theme. First by displaying its firmness to try to embark parliamentarians from the Les Républicains Party (LR) with the return of a form of double penalty and the tightening of several rules concerning visas and the right of asylum (for example the Reduction of the number of procedures possible in the event of litigation). Then by giving wages to the left wing of the majority on economic immigration with the creation “on an experimental basis” of “a temporary residence permit” for “work in trades in tension”. This “at the same time” embodied during cross interviews of ministers Gérald Darmanin (interior) and Olivier Dussopt (work) could close as a trap on the government.
Red figure
With this residence permit, the right has found a red cloth. And the context of the pension reform now pushes the rue de Vaugirard to oppose this future text head on. By displaying his support for this text to be coherent with his electorate, the new president of LR Eric Ciotti knew that he was taking the risk of passing his troops for “auxiliaries” of macronism. A breach in which the National Rally (RN) has been rushing since the beginning of the year. “Will all the Republican deputies be offered and even sell as Mr. Ciotti did?” Asked Jordan Bardella, President of the RN, Sunday, January 22. They vote all the texts of Emmanuel Macron. It is a clarification which is welcome, the Republicans integrate the presidential majority. “
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