2023-11-16 03:53:27
Gérald Darmanin has been praising the merits of his compromise strategy for weeks. The day after the solemn vote on a text profoundly revised by the right-wing majority of the Senate, the Minister of the Interior, who does not have a minute to lose, already has his eyes turned towards the National Assembly.
His task promises to be arduous, he who must satisfy the demands of the left wing of the macronie, without overly directing the elected representatives of the LR group. The minister is resolutely optimistic.
His first efforts this Wednesday, November 15, focused on the majority. Particularly on the members of the Law Commission, who will be the first to examine the text as of November 27. Gérald Darmanin took the time to have lunch with them, accompanied by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt. “All the tendencies of the majority were present this afternoon as well as all the rapporteurs,” said a participant.
“Houlié said he didn’t see a problem there”
According to our information, a “landing point” emerges on the most controversial subject of this bill: the famous article 3, now 4 bis in the Senate, which aims to regularize undocumented workers in professions in shortage. . And it is not a question of returning to the government’s initial version, largely toughened by the Senate. “We are aware of the fact that we cannot attack the Senate head-on, that we must push the LR to vote for the text or at least abstain,” analyzes a participant. They cannot not vote on this text, it is impossible for them. »
The envisaged outcome results from a proposal from the rapporteur and Renaissance deputy Florent Boudié. Concretely, this new wording would make it possible to arrive at a sort of in-between between the government’s initial version and that of the senators. This proposal does not aim to return to the automaticity of regularization, which the government initially proposed in its text. “We must be able to refuse regularization if the profile raises questions, particularly in the case of a criminal record,” confides an expert on the file.
On the other hand, the wording proposed by the rapporteur Boudié would aim to no longer rely exclusively on the sole assessment of the prefect. Some fear that such discretionary power will create unequal treatment from one territory to another. This proposal does not seem to have rushed Sacha Houlié, the president of the Commission of the Laws Committee. “He said that as it stood, he didn’t see a problem,” says a Renaissance deputy.
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