“I don’t want to be jostled by makeshift majorities or blockages,” Emmanuel Macron warned from the outset about the vote on the immigration bill in the Assembly. The Head of State told Le Figaro that he did not exclude the possible use of Article 49.3 on this text, the examination of which was postponed until the fall. “I will use what the Constitution allows me to do,” he said, calling himself “more Gaullist than the Gaullists” in reference to the Republicans.
On July 24, Emmanuel Macron said he was “good hope” that the “republican oppositions […] would help build a text” on immigration. But he had already suggested that he would not rule out the use of 49.3 to have the text adopted without a vote in Parliament, for lack of an absolute majority in the National Assembly: “The Constitution provides paths for the texts and I will have the responsibility that efficiency is achieved. »
The Republicans have shown their desire to influence the majority in order to toughen the text. Pressure that could increase, the right having like the far right made the link between the riots which followed the death of Nahel on June 27 during a police check, and immigration.
