2023-09-14 19:40:47
“Division is poison. » The warning from the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, to the Renaissance deputies has the merit of being clear. While the new parliamentary season marked by 49.3 looms, and the immigration bill puts Macronian “at the same time” to the test, the Prime Minister gave a very political speech on the occasion of the days parliamentarians of the presidential party, in Louan-Villegruis-Fontaine (Seine-et-Marne): “Division is a poison, it leads to the blocking of institutions, to political paralysis, then to defeat in the elections. »
On Tuesday, the head of government had already called for “unity” from the majority before the MoDem parliamentarians, and should certainly renew her message before those of Horizons on Friday. But his warning took on a particular resonance in Seine-et-Marne, after the publication on Monday in Release of a column on immigration which inflamed minds.
Division to overcome
Signed by the president of the Laws Commission, Sacha Houlié (Renaissance), with 34 other elected officials, from the majority, the center and the left outside the LFI, the text calls in particular for the regularization of foreigners in an irregular situation working in the professions “in tension” which have difficulty recruiting.
Some deputies, particularly on the right flank of the majority, judged this initiative harshly, at the risk of reactivating a right/left divide that Macronism intends to overcome.
“Method” problem
If the platform does not pose a problem “in substance” for the Renaissance deputies, several of them pointed out a problem of “method” on Wednesday, during the meeting of the group of deputies: “the photo (of the deputies) on the front page of Libération, the fact of doing it in one’s corner, of looking for partners who will not vote for the text,” detailed one of the participants on condition of anonymity to AFP.
In the press, Houlié continued to embrace his approach, which “brings the Macronian to life at the same time”, and is, according to him, seen in a “good light” at Matignon. Beyond these sometimes acidic exchanges, the majority is still wondering about the ways and means of having this text adopted, due to lack of a majority. MP Guillaume Kasbarian put back on the table the possibility of splitting the text in two, with the hope that the right will vote for the expulsion section, and the left for the regularization section.
Return of the 49.3
Other deputies are open to part of the text passing through regulations. “Whether it is effective to go faster with a circular, it is up to the government to estimate it,” said the president of the Renaissance group, Sylvain Maillard, to AFP, imagining that the Minister of Interior can commit “at the bench” to the content of this circular.
49.3 therefore appears to some as a possible path, with the idea that the left would not vote for a motion of censure from the right on the subject of migration.
“Strengthen transpartisan work”
Clearly, the task promises to be difficult for Élisabeth Borne, who also receives at Matignon the leaders of parties and parliamentary groups, who are very divided on the subject. Without modification of the Constitution, “nothing will happen”, warned Olivier Marleix (LR), when Olivier Faure (PS) refuses any “agreement with the LR”.
From 49.3, it should rain again on the budgetary texts which will be examined in the Assembly this fall, and from September 27 on the public finance programming law. “If I do not use 49.3 cheerfully, I refuse even more immobility,” said the Prime Minister in her speech. “We will not leave France without a budget,” she said to applause.
Borne nevertheless encouraged deputies to “strengthen transpartisan work” in order to achieve majorities on legal texts.
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