2023-12-13 07:00:01
Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de Chaillot, in Paris, December 10, 2023. MOHAMMED BADRA/AP
Emmanuel Macron strives not to let any of his exasperation show. Tuesday, December 12, twenty-four hours after the vote on the rejection motion which prevented the examination in the National Assembly of the “immigration” bill, one of the most important of the second five-year term, the head of the State evacuates in a few scathing sentences, as a preamble to the council of ministers, the political crisis which has just begun.
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The opposition, which united from the radical left to the far right, in the hope of blocking executive power, “does not reflect a surrogate majority”, he blurted. She translates the “cynicism”, l’“inconsistency” et “the game of the worst played in particular by the two government parties which ruled the country for forty years”, he continues, targeting the Socialist Party and The Republicans (LR). Before announcing that the government will convene a “joint joint commission” (CMP), which must meet “as quickly as possible towards the search for a compromise” – a priori Monday December 18 or Tuesday December 19, according to the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. “Everyone will have to take their part, majority and opposition”he concludes, before ” greet » the work accomplished by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who presented his resignation, immediately refused, the day before.
The gauntlet is raised. “We will never give up on finding compromises”, proclaims the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, during questions to the government in the National Assembly, while Gérald Darmanin, still groggy from what he assumes is his ” failure “, castigates an extreme right which “afraid of debate”denouncing the“unity of opposites” which took place during the vote on the motion between “those who want to welcome everyone and those who want to welcome no one”.
“We have to go quickly”
As with the pension reform in the spring, the blow came from the right. A significant proportion of LR deputies voted, to general amazement, for the rejection motion tabled by environmentalists, associating their voices with those of elected socialists, La France insoumise (LFI) and the National Rally (RN). But no dissolution of the National Assembly is considered essential at this stage, government spokesperson Olivier Véran stressed on Tuesday. With all due respect to the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, who already imagines himself in the clothes of a “prime minister of cohabitation”, as the almost thirty-year-old declared on Tuesday at the microphone of RMC.
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