2023-11-17 07:00:24
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in the Senate, November 6, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “LE MONDE”
The table was set for two. This Tuesday, November 14, Place Beauvau, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, receives his ” boyfriend “ Sacha Houlié at lunch. In front of the president of the law commission, a figure of the left wing of Macronie, the former Republican (LR) unfolds his strategy to have the “immigration” bill adopted in the National Assembly, the examination of which is scheduled to start on December 11. The forty-year-old is nervous. Exhausted by the negotiations which made it possible to reach agreement with a majority of 210 senators, in a hemicycle where the presidential camp only has 40 elected officials.
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This performance comes at a price. Gérald Darmanin let right-wing elected officials drastically toughen the project. A “museum of horrors”, chokes Sacha Houlié. Article 3, allowing the automatic regularization of undocumented workers in professions in shortage, was repealed, in favor of a less expensive article. ; state medical aid (AME), a basket of care intended for undocumented immigrants has disappeared, in favor of emergency medical aid (AMU); automatic land law for children born in France to foreign parents has been abolished; the offense of illegal residence has been reinstated; family reunification has been tightened, as has access to social rights… Bruno Retailleau, leader of the LR senators, declares victory. Gérald Darmanin too. “It’s fair gamesighs Senator LR, but as they say back home, in Vendée, it’s at the end of the fair that we count the dung. »
The fair is not over. But Gérald Darmanin is already counting the “dung”. And calculates in front of Sacha Houlié that beyond the deputies of the presidential camp, the elected representatives of the LIOT group (Liberty, independents, overseas and territories), whom he has carefully treated for months during trips to Corsica and overseas -mer, will vote in favor of “his” text. Fifteen LR deputies would be in favor of him. With the expected abstentions of elected officials from the National Rally (RN) and the right, the text can pass without 49.3 – article of the Constitution allowing a law to be adopted without a vote –, calculates the tenant of Place Beauvau, who asks the member of Vienna not to take positions contrary to his own during the discussions on the bench.
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“Gérald has the keys”
A week earlier, Sacha Houlié had warned in an interview with Figaro that the Renaissance deputies would restore the government’s initial text, rid of its right-wing excesses. The suppressions of the AME and the land law, assimilated to legislative cavaliers, are destined to be censored by the Constitutional Council. But part of the presidential camp wants to indicate its disapproval while, during the debates in the Senate, Mr. Darmanin preferred to avoid confrontation on the merits. “What is done on the ground is “no way”. These are fundamental principles that the National Assembly must correct, it is not up to judges to correct this thing. And I’m right-wing! “, exclaims Charles Sitzenstuhl, Renaissance deputy for Bas-Rhin. “We want a rewrite”engages Bertrand Pancher, head of the LIOT deputies, who encourages the minister to demonstrate “his Gaullism and his humanism”.
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