2023-12-06 05:00:08
Olivier Marleix, president of the Les Républicains group at the National Assembly, in Paris, December 5, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “LE MONDE”
While the “immigration” bill will be debated on Monday, December 11 in the National Assembly, the Republican party (LR) has the hand to challenge the majority during its parliamentary “niche”, this Thursday, December 7. “We want to show the government that it is pretending to get to the bottom of things with its “immigration” law”, warns Olivier Marleix, president of the LR group. And before the LR’s constitutional law proposal to broaden the scope of the referendum to immigration, the Republicans are already proposing for Macronie the denunciation of the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968.
Regardless of the probable rejection, for LR it is a question of marking its territory and embodying firmness in matters of immigration. “We must have the courage to say that without constitutional reform and without calling into question the 1968 agreement, we will not be able to completely take back our destiny, advances Michèle Tabarot, MP for Alpes-Maritimes and rapporteur of the proposed resolution (PPR). This agreement creates a derogation regime extremely favorable to Algerians to facilitate their immigration to France. Nothing justifies it today. »
In fact, in its immigration bill, the government emphasizes that the provisions do not concern “Algerian nationals, who are exclusively governed by the Franco-Algerian agreement”.
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The Republicans judge ” obsolete “ this bilateral text signed under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle after the Algerian war. In 1968, in a context of strong economic growth, France needed hands and this agreement facilitated the recruitment of workers in the former French territory, by creating a specific status in terms of movement, residence and employment in France. .
“12.7% of foreigners in France”
Today, the right sees it as an automatic right to immigration. In the drafting of its PPR, it indicates that according to INSEE figures, Algerians constituted in 2021 “the first nationality [étrangère] present on our soil… with 887,100 nationals, or 12.7% of foreigners in France”.
If the vote on such a text has no binding effect, diplomacy being the responsibility of the Head of State, the Renaissance deputies fear the message sent to Algeria, especially at a time when it is a question of warming up relations between the two countries, very fresh after the Algiers decision, in March , to now refuse to issue consular passes, essential documents to allow the return of Algerians expelled from France.
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