The Republicans announce that they will not vote on the text in the National Assembly

2023-12-06 12:52:31
The president of the Les Républicains party, Eric Ciotti, November 22, 2023. SARAH MEYSSONNIER/REUTERS

“We will not vote on the text of the bill [sur l’immigration] as adopted by the Law Commission » of the National Assembly, warned Wednesday, December 6, the president of the Les Républicains (LR) party, Eric Ciotti, five days before his examination in the hemicycle.

“I say it very clearly: we will not be complicit in this announced failure”continued the deputy for Alpes-Maritimes during a press conference at the Paris headquarters of his party, pointing the finger “a cheap text”, “without ambition” et “which will ultimately solve nothing”.

Surrounded by the presidents of the LR parliamentary groups in the Senate and the National Assembly, Bruno Retailleau and Olivier Marleix, the boss of the Republicans, on the contrary, praised the version of the text as voted by the upper house in mid-November. The bill was then revised by the law committee in the National Assembly. And it is this new version which arrives on December 11 in the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon.

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The Senate had “considerably improved and resulted in a text whose scope I welcomed and which marked very concrete progress, as far as we could go within the current constitutional framework”underlined Mr. Marleix.

At the time, however, he expressed his reluctance towards this version. Asked about possible abstentions on the part of deputies from his group of 62 elected officials, he assured not to “reason like that”.

“At present, I do not see many deputies within the group who are ready to validate a massive regularization movement”he explained, arguing that “If people have problems with internal coherence, they are the ones to ask”. Asked about the possible filing of a motion to reject, Mr. Marleix also evaded: “We have until 12:30 p.m. [lundi] to do it, we’ll see. You will know that at 12:15 p.m..

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