2023-12-15 06:27:26
He appears optimistic. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, hopes to arrive at the beginning of next week at a compromise text on the Immigration law, against which a motion to reject was voted on Monday in the Assembly.
Interviewed this Thursday on RTL, the first cop in France, according to the established expression, recalls that “we need extremely strong and rapid measures against illegal immigration, against foreign delinquents. We need firm measures.” “LR and centrists, we each understood that we must now stop playing politics and have a text for the French. I welcome the discussions we are having. It is from the Senate text that we work,” he explains.
He adds, regarding the regularizations planned for foreigners with work, that “this bill has very firm measures and repairs injustices. We have to find compromises, it’s the principle of the relative majority,” he said, referring both to the fact that majority parliamentarians may have to accept tougher measures than originally and , conversely, that the Les Républicains party should perhaps also accept measures that it did not originally defend, by being less firm on the question of regularizations.
Discussions will be held from Monday within the framework of a joint committee. This is a body bringing together parliamentarians from different sides responsible for finding a compromise on a text which does not have a majority. “Tuesday evening we will have, I hope, a text. Very quickly we will have measures to protect the French,” hopes Gérald Darmanin.
As for the way of obtaining the adoption of this text, the Minister of the Interior is unfavorable to the use of article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows adoption without a vote, unless a motion of censure against the government brings together an absolute majority of deputies. “I am not in favor of 49.3”, he assures, even if the government to which he belongs has already used it twenty times since 2022, for example on the subject of pensions or, at the start of the month, concerning Security social. “I have always preferred to convince rather than coerce. The deputies are there to debate, even if it means disagreeing. I will fight to have a text, and as firm as possible. »
He concludes with a position that would be measured on the text, a sort of synthesis between a hard line and a more flexible line. The goal would be “less drama, more protection of our borders, better integration, without entering into the delirium of hatred of foreigners”.
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