2023-11-08 23:55:31
The Senate voted to remove the flagship measure of the government’s immigration bill: article 3, which provided for a residence permit for certain undocumented workers in shortage occupations, on the evening of Wednesday 8 november.
The senatorial majority of the right and the center, however, agreed before this vote on the drafting of another article providing for a residence permit “exceptional” and with tougher outlines for workers in sectors with labor shortages, which should be adopted, barring any surprises, as a continuation of the examination of this sensitive text.
“The consequence of this amendment which is tabled is obviously the deletion of the original article 3 in the text”declared the Les Républicains (LR) president of the law commission, François-Noël Buffet, “considering that it could lead to significant, not to say massive, regularization. »
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An “acceptable” compromise for Gérald Darmanin
The government measure would have generated a “automatic right” to regularization, also denounced the president of the LR group, Bruno Retailleau, fearing a “call of air” migratory. The compromise of the senatorial majority is “acceptable to the government”estimated the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who however opposed in principle the deletion of his article, which was voted by 191 votes for and 138 against.
“The important thing is the spirit of compromise that the government wants in order to obtain the essential part of what it is asking for: a measure for the regularization of people who have worked in our country for a very long time and whose bosses [refusent de] regularize them »did he declare.
Presented as a ” Red line “ on the right but popular with the left wing of the presidential camp, article 3 provided in its wording by the government the granting of a one-year renewable residence permit to people who work in “jobs in tension”with three years of presence in France as well as eight pay slips.
The additional article that the right and the center tabled on Wednesday plans to leave “sole discretionary power of the prefect” this possibility of regularization at the end of a “strictly supervised procedure”largely toughened and accompanied by multiple conditions, including that of compliance with “values of the Republic”. The National Assembly will in turn have to vote on the bill from December 11.
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