2023-05-19 06:00:20
July 2022. Gérald Darmanin announces an immigration law, the second under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. A few weeks later, the Minister of the Interior must backpedal, caught up by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who asks him to organize a consultation upstream.
May 2023. The bill is still not out of limbo. Unveiled in the fall of 2022, presented to the Council of Ministers in February, voted on by the Senate Law Committee in March, deprogrammed a few days later, announced again by the President of the Republic in a cut-out form, then buried by Mme Terminal, before being put back on the agenda by the Head of State and finally rescheduled for the summer… A messy strategy? The sign of differences within the government? The failure of a method?
The right revels in seeing the macronie bogged down on a theme that it wants to make its own. Presented as balanced by the government, this law was to strengthen the possibilities of deportation of delinquent foreigners and simplify the regularization of undocumented workers. Result: the left does not buy a text deemed too repressive and Les Républicains (LR) have vetoed the regularization measures.
“He is ready to toughen the text”
Did Gérald Darmanin overestimate his ability to convince his former LR comrades? “There is undoubtedly a space to find a compromise”continues to defend an adviser from Place Beauvau, while the minister has obtained that the law is not permanently put away, to the detriment of Matignon.
A consultation cycle must give birth to a corrected text by the summer. Place Beauvau, it is suggested that the minister could let go of the regularizations. “Strategically, Darmanin has always been in favor of having a subject of negotiation with the rightargues a close friend of the minister. He is ready to harden the text. » At the risk of alienating part of the macronie? The chairman of the law commission of the National Assembly and Renaissance deputy for Vienne, Sacha Houlié, has already warned that the left wing would not support a text cut off from the regularization component.
On immigration, another file is struggling: Mayotte. Gérald Darmanin wanted to stage, in this department of the Indian Ocean, a punch operation, “Wuambushu”, to fight against illegal immigration, delinquency and slums. But if the local elected officials, very largely in favor of this initiative, speak of the minister as a « ami »the results are expected, nearly a month after the arrival in the archipelago of reinforcements of police and gendarmes.
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