“It has become the mother of battles”: the immigration bill in the Senate, the executive up against the wall

2023-11-06 23:21:30

“This text is firm, but is not closed,” says Gérald Darmanin after half an hour of remarks to the senators. At the podium of the Luxembourg Palace, the Minister of the Interior may well keep his cool, he knows that he is beginning the tightest political part since he arrived in Beauvau in July 2020: the examination in session of the famous immigration bill on which the executive has been struggling for more than a year. “In the current context, it has become the mother of battles. If we get stuck there, this five-year term is over,” an executive advisor does not beat around the bush.