The president of LR Éric Ciotti “solemnly” asks Emmanuel Macron to receive him on the question of immigration so as not to be “bobbined into yet another lukewarm scenario”.
“It’s at the Élysée that it will be decided, it’s the President of the Republic who has the keys and he alone”, estimates the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes in an interview on Saturday with Parisian, recalling however that in company of the presidents of the LR groups in the Senate Bruno Retailleau and in the Assembly Olivier Marleix, they would respond to the invitation of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin “out of courtesy”.
The Republicans have tabled two very hard-line immigration bills against a government that hopes for a compromise around its future bill.
But “it’s a false outstretched hand, there is no firmness in the handshake”, regretted Éric Ciotti, for whom only the proposal of LR can “solve the problem of immigration in our country” .
The boss of the right adds that his party will reproduce “on other themes” this type of legislative initiative, “especially at the economic level in the fall”.
Asked about the recent position of former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, for whom the government bill is “necessary” but “not sufficient”, Mr. Ciotti calls on the Horizons deputies to “follow” the LRs rather than the majority.
Denouncing a “double speech” on the part of the mayor of Le Havre, he decides: “I do not see on what basis we would work with him”.
Mr. Ciotti also criticizes the last trips of Emmanuel Macron, each giving rise according to him “to an announcement of additional expenditure in millions of euros”. “Since March 30, the counter has stood at 5.3 billion euros!”, He points out.
06/10/2023 19:24:18 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
