2023-12-19 06:46:11
The socialists upon their arrival at the meeting of the joint committee on the “immigration” bill, at the Palais-Bourbon, December 18, 2023: Senator Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie, the president of the socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud , Senator Corinne Narassiguin and the president of the Senate group, Patrick Kanner. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
A President of the Republic with his back to the wall. While the rest of his five-year term is suspended until the adoption of the immigration bill by Parliament, Emmanuel Macron increased the number of telephone calls to his Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, during the evening of Monday, December 18. Not missing a beat of this crucial stage of his second term, meddling like no head of state before him in the negotiations between the majority and the opposition, following step by step the joint joint commission (CMP) that he himself prescribed. With the concern to avoid at all costs a failure experienced as the staging of its impediment.
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Following the adoption of the motion for prior rejection of the bill in the National Assembly, on December 11, Emmanuel Macron decided that sending the text back to the CMP was preferable to a new shuttle between the Senate and the National Assembly. , which would have taken several weeks and would have hit his « meeting with the nation », scheduled for January. It is up to the majority to urgently find a “intelligent compromise” with the right, which would allow the adoption of the text.
The CMP, which brings together seven deputies and seven senators representing political groups, the only stage of the legislative process in which the government is not present, is a place in principle protected. In the event of disagreement between the two Chambers, the aim is to protect parliamentarians from any external pressure to enable them to develop a compromise. The only departure from this closed session so far is that the rapporteur from the majority sometimes allowed himself to “text” with the minister responsible for the text or the Prime Minister, to ask for advice or instructions.
“An official CMP and an unofficial CMP”
Monday afternoon, these practices were shattered. A sign of the extreme tension that reigns around the “immigration” bill, the interventions of the executive took place in a much less discreet manner. “It’s unheard of, an extraordinary CMP”noted in the evening the former Keeper of the Seals Jean-Jacques Urvoas, professor of public law at the University of Brest, who was brought to chair it when he sat at the Palais-Bourbon.
In fact, far from remaining confined to an Assembly room, as is usual, the discussions were partly relocated to rue de Varenne, in the Prime Minister’s office. But also relayed on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, in that of the President of the Republic. “There is an official CMP and an unofficial CMP, in which people who are not members are intrigued, and others who make calls to the executive”described at the end of the meeting the president of the Socialist Party (PS) group in the National Assembly, Boris Vallaud, substitute during this session.
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