the government convenes a joint committee; Emmanuel Macron denounces the “cynicism” of the oppositions

2023-12-12 14:36:20

For this Monday vote, where the vote was decided by a few votes (270 against 265), five deputies from Renaissance, three from MoDem and one from Horizon were missing from the presidential coalition to fully refuel and perhaps change the outcome of the rejection motion. If several of them were traveling – including the Renaissance MP Monique Iborra, who was in Toulouse with Emmanuel Macron – the MoDem MP in Bouches-du-Rhône, Mohamed Laqhila, admits to having abstained on this motion of rejection and calls for ” a withdrawal ” of this text.

“On a personal level, given my history, the son of immigrants, this debate [sur l’immigration]for years, I have been experiencing it very badly”, he explained on BFM-TV Tuesday morning. For the centrist elected official, the text from the Senate, considerably toughened by senators from the right and the center, corresponds “on the RN program [Rassemblement national]. (…) I will not vote for this text”. “We are chasing this electorate without addressing the substance of the subjecthe continued. We have mixed several things in this text: if we attack clandestine work, let’s go all out… But who benefits? Have we pointed the finger at rogue bosses? No, here we are chasing illegal immigrants. »