2023-11-27 10:22:42
Les Républicains de Seine-et-Marne deputy Jean-Louis Thieriot, at the National Assembly, in Paris, June 12, 2023. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP
Even on Sundays, the right cultivates its art of division. As the immigration bill begins its journey through the National Assembly on Monday, November 27 with its examination by the law committee, seventeen Les Républicains (LR) deputies are taking a step towards the majority. Enough to irritate their group leader, Olivier Marleix, but also their president, Eric Ciotti, who are very opposed to this text.
In a column published by La Tribune Sunday on November 26, these elected officials said they were ready to support the project carried by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, but set their conditions. “The unraveling of the Senate text is obviously the main threat to the future of this law. We will only be able to cast our votes if the spirit of the project prevails. voted by the Senate » November 14th.
Despite this precaution, this platform is welcomed with pleasure by Mathieu Lefèvre, Renaissance deputy and close to Mr. Darmanin. “It’s a very responsible initiative, underlines the elected representative from Val-de-Marne and former member of LR. Some may want to go further in Les Républicains, but that cannot justify refusing the major progress of this text. »
“Intellectually a little short”
One of the signatories confides that the idea of this forum dates back three weeks with the aim, in particular, of avoiding being “cornerized” by those in the group who push for frontal opposition, such as the Lot deputy Aurélien Pradié. Initially, there was a core of “constructive” elected officials with the majority, including Jean-Louis Thiériot, main editor of the forum. “In the Senate text, there is no justification for not voting on it in the Assemblyrecently explained to Monde the deputy for Seine-et-Marne. If the main argument is to oppose, this seems intellectually a bit short. »
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Recently, several of the signatories have also distanced themselves from the strategy defined by the Marleix-Ciotti duo – without reform of the Constitution (to broaden the scope of the referendum to immigration), the Darmanin law would only be an ordinary law moreover, according to them. So, you might as well reject it. “We cannot persist in saying: ‘It’s constitutional reform, or nothing at all’”, argued, even before the text was voted on in the Senate, Virginie Duby-Muller, deputy for Haute-Savoie. For the seventeen signatories, this constitutional reform is considered ” necessary “but this does not “could justify rejecting concrete legislative improvements, favored by the vast majority of French people”.
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