2023-12-02 12:01:39
“It’s a great satisfaction. The government will continue to listen to convince, immediately reacted the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on. After a week of examination, the immigration bill, which will arrive in the hemicycle from December 11, was adopted in a revised version, shortly after 2 a.m. thanks to the votes of the presidential camp and Liot deputies, and despite opposition from the left and the RN.
“Perhaps the parliamentarians also saw that there was no reason to oppose and that in the face of the evidence, in the face of the usefulness of all these measures, in the face of the fact that no political figure before us “had managed to act in this way, well, perhaps we should have let ourselves do it,” the president of the Laws Commission Sacha Houlié (Renaissance) said this Saturday on France 2.
The two LRs present were divided. Mansour Kamardine (Mayotte), who notably had an amendment adopted at the end of the session to toughen family reunification on his territory, supported the bill unlike Annie Genevard (Doubs), who voted against. “The count is not there for us,” she reacted to AFP, believing that the text had “far too far away in its fundamentals from the Senate version”.
Among the most commented on measures, state medical aid (AME) for undocumented immigrants, which the Senate had replaced by emergency medical aid, has been restored. Concerning the experimentation of a system for regularizing undocumented immigrants in professions in shortage, also emblematic, the presidential camp proposed “a compromise”.
The power of the prefect framed
The Senate planned a procedure entirely in the hands of the prefect. The version adopted in committee at the Assembly regulates the power of the latter, who could oppose the issuance of the title in the event of a threat to public order, non-respect of the values of the Republic or polygamy. The deputies returned to part of the senatorial tightening on family reunification, access to emergency accommodation, or even the conditions of access to certain social benefits.
But they also kept several on the need to benefit from regular resources to access family reunification, the conditions of access to the “sick foreigner” title, or requirements for learning the French language. In committee, Gérald Darmanin did not fail to list to the LR deputies all the Senate additions retained in the text, emphasizing the measures aimed at facilitating expulsions and reducing the time limits for examining asylum applications. “You will have a lot of difficulty explaining that this is not what the French want,” he said.
On Friday, the deputies notably adopted the lifting of several “protection” locks, against the expulsion of foreigners in a legal situation when they have committed certain crimes and serious offenses, or against decisions requiring them to leave French territory ( OQTF).
Without the 49.3?
They also adopted a broad reform of the National Court of Asylum (CNDA). The text aims to deconcentrate it through territorial chambers. To the great dismay of the left, it also establishes the principle of decisions by single judge, collegiality being rather reserved for cases deemed complex, except for minors.
The parliamentary left, united on this text, attacked at length the pledges given to the right, deploring, like the Insoumis Thomas Portes, “a racist, xenophobic law which will have deadly consequences for thousands of people”. For the head of PS deputies Boris Vallaud, the government is showing “duplicity” by agreeing to review its regularization system.
The RN vigorously criticized a text that was too weak in its eyes. On the LR side, the group’s position was partly weakened by the publication of a forum of 17 deputies open to a vote on the text, if it retained sufficient elements from the Senate. In committee, the group’s executives went on the offensive again, while insisting on the need for constitutional reform that the group must defend in the hemicycle on December 7.
Beyond certain voices on the right, Beauvau hopes to be able to count on the independent Liot group, and more broadly on overseas deputies from other camps. The examination in session will also be revealing for the minister, Gérald Darmanin intending to achieve a victory without the government resorting to 49.3.
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