If he still doubted it, the government is now warned. In a Hemicycle where he only has a relative majority, his path will be particularly narrow to rally opposition, whether on the right or on the left, on his bill on immigration which must be presented at the beginning of 2023.
The debate on migration policy, organized Tuesday, December 6 in the National Assembly, to allow parliamentary groups to unveil their proposals on this text was a new illustration. For nearly four hours, speakers from the Les Républicains (LR) party, those from the National Rally (RN) and those from the left took the opportunity above all to criticize in unison the President of the Republic’s record on immigration, Emmanuel Macron, and to castigate the first orientations of the bill unveiled by the executive.
As a preamble to this series of speeches, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, tried to defend a “balanced text” : and “France is and will remain faithful to its tradition of asylum”she must be able “say whoever you want” et “who we don’t want” welcome. “We are not looking to divide or multiply purely symbolic measures”she warned from the rostrum of the National Assembly, affirming, to the benches of the far right and the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), that “zero immigration is neither desirable nor possible, and is no more realistic than unregulated immigration”.
If the government assures that the text, which it believes will combine “firmness and humanity”has not yet been finalized, three ministers – Gérald Darmanin (interior), Olivier Dussopt (labour) and Catherine Colonna (foreign affairs) – developed its outline on Tuesday.
On the first part of this bill, Gérald Darmanin quickly displayed his ambition on Tuesday: “Let those who commit crimes and misdemeanors become aware that they cannot remain on national territory. » For the Minister of the Interior, who began his speech by quoting the nationalist author and figure of French Action Jacques Bainville (1879-1936) provoking the protests of the “rebellious”, “too many specifically French rules prevent deporting a criminal on our soil”.
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Gérald Darmanin would like the law to allow “don’t censor us anymore” leaving “to judges the task of measuring whether private and family life and the right to reside [régi par l’article 8 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme] are compatible with the acts of delinquency which will be done to women and children, violence against the police, the gendarmes or the firefighters”.
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