2023-12-20 02:05:23
A highly anticipated vote, and scrutinized down to the smallest detail. After weeks of discussions – and controversies, the Immigration law was adopted this Tuesday evening by the Assembly, with 349 votes for, 186 against and 38 abstentions. Without numerically needing the votes of the 88 RN deputies to vote on this much-maligned text, Gérald Darmanin immediately congratulated himself.
Object of all attention: the behavior of the majority deputies, who came forward divided in the face of a text that was too right-wing for some, notably those from the left wing of the majority. Within the Renaissance group, in the end 131 voted for, 20 voted against and 17 abstained. Among the other majority partners, the Democratic group (MoDem and Independents) appeared divided, with 30 votes for, 5 against and 15 abstentions. At Horizons, 28 deputies voted for the text and two spoke against.
On the right, the 88 deputies of the National Rally all voted in favor, like the 62 deputies of the Republicans. On the side of the left opposition, the 75 members of the LFI group voted against, as did the 31 members of the socialist and related group or the 23 members of the environmentalist group. Here are the details of the deputies’ votes, according to Assembly data. How did yours vote? The answer with our search engine (you can find your constituency here).
A little earlier in the evening, the Senate, dominated by the right and the center, had also adopted the bill, by 214 against 114. But it was in the middle of the afternoon that lightning struck. shot down on the Macronists: Marine Le Pen then indicated that the RN deputies would finally vote for the text resulting from the CMP, claiming an “ideological victory” and causing the beginnings of a divide within the majority.
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The CMP, this circle made up of seven deputies and seven senators, had just announced an agreement on a clearly toughened text with a clear right-wing inspiration. A victory in the eyes of the Republicans (LR) who said they were imposing a “firm and courageous” text, according to party boss Éric Ciotti. But a text denounced on the left and by several members of the majority, some ministers even putting their resignation in the balance.
The centrist Liot group, which is not part of the majority, but whose support was expected by the executive, had also requested the withdrawal of the text, “a source of great political fracturing”. At the heart of the discord: the validation by the presidential camp of several measures demanded by the right, in particular multi-year immigration quotas defined in Parliament or the reinstatement of an offense of illegal residence punishable by a fine. The government also responded to the Republicans’ ultimatums, notably with a written commitment to reform state medical aid “at the beginning of 2024”. So many elements which have plunged the presidential majority into crisis, with scattered votes on a long-awaited law.
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