2023-11-28 06:00:11
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, during the vote on the “immigration” bill, in the Senate, November 14, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
Even before the examination of the “immigration” bill began in the Law Committee of the National Assembly, Monday, November 27, a small scent of victory emanated from Place Beauvau. “The government will not come across this text”, we argued at the Ministry of the Interior. Breach of trust ? Bluff?
Gérald Darmanin gained confidence the day before, reading La Tribune Sunday, where no less than seventeen deputies from the Les Républicains (LR) party called to show themselves “vigilant” but also “constructive” vis-à-vis the government’s text which intends to fight more effectively against illegal immigration, with the promise of better integrating foreigners residing on French soil.
“Inhabited by the culture of a government party, we will approach the examination of this text (…) to achieve a point of balance which serves the interest of the French and is finally effective”, write the right-wing elected officials. A line perceived at Place Beauvau going against the intransigence advocated by the president of the group of LR deputies at the Palais-Bourbon, Olivier Marleix, who castigates throughout interviews a “text that resolves nothing”.
“We don’t really know what the Marleix line is other than being against, against and against”sighs Julien Dive, deputy (LR) for Aisne and signatory of the platform, explaining however that he does not want to play the “enforcement” of the government. “Look at the signatories, this is not the platform of seventeen Macronists! Global opposition politics is not politics. The Senate text is a consensus for a good part of our group,” supports his colleague (LR) from Rhône Alexandre Vincendet.
The one who maintains privileged relations with the Minister of the Interior believes that the constitutional reform demanded by the LR staff to make it possible to organize a referendum on immigration – which the presidential camp does not want – is ” important “ but is not “a prerequisite”. View at the Ministry of the Interior as “a sign of encouragement”, the LR missive was read with relish by Gérald Darmanin from Nouméa, where he completed an express trip to New Caledonia on Sunday.
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The text confirms in his eyes a hypothesis: the LR deputies are divided and “Olivier Marleix will not be able to table a motion of censure” as he claims. The elected representative of Eure-et-Loir would need 58 signatures to hope to overthrow the government. THE “postures are those of leaders”, when the “deputy marsh” his, “very keen to find a compromise”, we insist within the minister’s office. A message also addressed to Eric Ciotti. A little reluctant at first, the president of LR ended up aligning himself, in an interview with Sunday newspaperon October 29, on the Marleix line regarding the motion of censure.
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