Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne presented on Wednesday her roadmap for the “hundred days of appeasement” and “actions” decreed by Emmanuel Macron, which includes a wide range of “concrete” measures, but no bill on immigration.
The head of government detailed “concrete solutions (and) actions that change the lives (of the French)”, at the end of the Council of Ministers where she set out the measures to try to turn the page on the highly contested reform retirements.
Ms. Borne however announced that the immigration bill wanted by Emmanuel Macron would ultimately not be presented immediately, for lack of a majority, postponing a hypothetical text with vague outlines until the fall.
“Today, there is no majority to vote for such a text, as I was able to verify yesterday by talking to the leaders of the Republicans”, whose contribution is essential to the government which does not have the National Assembly only by a relative majority, she acknowledged.
To show that the executive is acting on this “priority” without waiting for a law, she announced the mobilization “from next week” of “150 additional police and gendarmes in the Alpes-Maritimes” to deal with “increased migratory pressure at the Italian border.
On immigration, “if we cannot find a global agreement, we will in any case present a text in the fall, with efficiency as our only compass”, she said.
For the “100 days”, Ms. Borne announced that a “green industry” bill would be presented in mid-May. “This is the meaning of the decarbonization roadmap for the major industrial sectors and the 50 most emitting sites,” she explained.
She also promised to obtain “a fairer distribution of the wealth produced by companies” and set herself the goal of debating in Parliament for the next three months “the bill transposing the agreement between the social partners on the sharing of the value”.
The Prime Minister also called on companies “to act collectively to raise wages”.
On environmental issues, she offered “personalized support” for the thermal renovation of housing.
Asked about her commitment not to use article 49.3 outside the budget text, the head of government said she was confident of finding majorities text by text, adding that this is her “objective”.
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26/04/2023 13:14:46 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
