2023-12-12 06:30:35
“It’s exhaustion at the same time.” Reactions multiplied Monday evening, after the vote by the deputies on a motion to reject the immigration bill defended by Gérald Darmanin. The National Assembly adopted this motion by 270 votes to 265, with the votes of the left, the LR and the RN, inflicting a very heavy political defeat on the government.
“By trying to please everyone, we dissatisfy everyone on the benches of the Assembly,” said Boris Vallaud, president of the PS group in the Assembly, as he left the Chamber. “It’s exhaustion at the same time, it’s a missed opportunity for an important subject for the French,” he said. Same observation for the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure who now calls for “working on a bill consistent with republican principles”. “Foreigners cannot be presented as suspects,” he further stressed, believing that Gérald Darmanin must “draw conclusions” from this vote.
“It feels like the end of the road for his law”
On the side of France Insoumise, its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also attacked the Minister of the Interior. “Darmanin has tamed the small Macronist groups. But not the National Assembly. It feels like the end of the road for his law and therefore for him,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Darmanin tamed the small Macronist groups. But not the National Assembly. It feels like the end of the road for his law and therefore for him.
— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) December 11, 2023
For Mathilde Panot, president of the rebellious group in the Assembly, “Macronie is entering an extremely deep crisis of power”. “With the rejection of this law, those in power would do well to remember that there is a Parliament in this country. If they had made us vote more on certain subjects – pensions, the budget – they would have had the same failure,” judged the elected representative from Val-de-Marne, calling for the resignation of the Minister of the Interior.
On the left again, the PCF sees behind the adoption of this rejection motion, “a relative victory”. A victory because “this text contained a lot of very harmful articles which fuel division, hatred, racism and which make the immigrant a pariah. And at the same time, it remains a relative victory because I don’t know what it will cause behind it,” points out the communist deputy, Fabien Roussel. “If this text goes back to the Senate and it is toughened by the right, it will be even harder for our country,” judges the former presidential candidate.
“An extremely powerful disavowal”
On the right, President LR, Éric Ciotti, whose group was decisive in voting for the preliminary rejection motion, called on the government to resume the debates “on a much more credible basis than that taken by the majority by unraveling the text of the Senate and by refusing our constitutional law proposal.” “We want a text that responds to real challenges, we want to debate and adopt the Senate text in its entirety, without addition, without modification (…). The migratory challenge cannot tolerate half-measures,” defended the MP for Alpes-Maritimes.
VIDEO. “The bill is rejected”: the Assembly approves the motion to reject the text on the immigration law
Another reaction, that of the LR deputy, Alexandre Vincendet, who was one of the LR elected officials to have opposed the motion for preliminary rejection, despite the call from the president of the party, Éric Ciotti to support it. “I opposed this motion to reject out of a spirit of responsibility,” he explained. at the microphone of BFMTV. “I am one of those who believe that our political family is a government family. We have to debate and, at the end of this text, if we did not agree, we could have rejected it. But there, we don’t even have a debate, it’s the choice of a majority of the group that we can regret,” he said.
For her part, the president of the RN group in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen judged that the adoption of the rejection motion “protects the French from an additional migratory call”. While criticizing the setback that this vote represents for the majority. “The disavowal that has just been expressed this evening is extremely powerful, a disavowal of at the same time, which is a real political fraud and which is revealed in its true face,” she continued.
Borne denounces an “alliance of opposites”
While Gérald Darmanin saw his resignation refused by Emmanuel Macron, who received the Minister of the Interior at the start of the evening, Elisabeth Borne denounced an “alliance of opposites” and accused the oppositions of “refusing the debate” on the ‘immigration.
Furthermore, the Prime Minister will bring together this Monday evening the ministers concerned by the immigration bill rejected by the National Assembly, the majority group presidents, the president of the Law Commission Sacha Houlié and the general rapporteur of the Florent Boudié text “to establish the strategy”, announced Matignon.
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