2023-12-15 02:03:33
The words chosen are strong to describe the political situation since the rejection of the immigration bill. The absence of debate in the Assembly on the text after the adoption of a motion to reject is “a terrible waste”, said Thursday the president of the MoDem, François Bayrou, while the executive convened a joint commission joint deputies senators to find a way out.
“For me, it is a terrible waste because if we have a text which is concluded by the joint joint committee (…) and if it is voted on, it will be voted on without ever having been examined” in the Assembly, said said the mayor of Pau on France 5.
“If MPs refuse to vote for the law, what is the point of being elected MP? The barking in the National Assembly, the insults, are completely inappropriate and far removed from what voters would want from an assembly like this. “
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The president of the centrist party, ally of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, denounced oppositions “who have chosen to suppress themselves, to erase themselves”, “to make themselves hara-kiri as legislators”. With “a totally misplaced feeling of victory”.
“That the National Assembly, elected to write and discuss the law, decides that on a text, (on) principles on which we have torn, we would not talk about it, we would stay away, In my opinion, it’s completely out of place, not far from being delusional,” he added.
“Lots of managers everywhere”
After the adoption of a prior rejection motion on Monday in the Assembly, Emmanuel Macron opted for the convening of a joint committee, which will meet on Monday at 5 p.m. In the meantime, Élisabeth Borne is holding more meetings with the right and with her majority to find common ground, even if it means giving up on the regularization of undocumented immigrants.
“There are plenty of people responsible everywhere, in the style, in the manner, in the attitudes”, and “without doubt” in the government, judged François Bayrou on Thursday. As for Emmanuel Macron, “he is the guardian of the institutions,” said the mayor of Pau, without elaborating.
A “balanced” text according to him
François Bayrou did not give the position of the MoDem, ally of the majority, in this negotiation between the majority and the right. However, he described as “balanced” the version of the text written by the Assembly’s Law Committee, the same one whose examination was blocked by the adoption of a motion of rejection by the deputies.
He sees in the debate around immigration “extremely clear-cut positions” among political actors, but “divisions which in public opinion do not exist to this extent”. On the other hand, he reiterated his opposition to the use of 49.3 on this text, an option excluded by Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne.
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