The immigration bill will not be presented immediately, for lack of a majority. This was announced by Élisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister, on Wednesday April 26, at the end of the Council of Ministers. “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 to the National Assembly only by a relative majority, she acknowledged.
This reverse therefore rejects this hypothetical text with still vague outlines. But if the executive cannot “find a global agreement”, it will present “a text in the fall with, as the only compass, efficiency”, specified the Prime Minister.
Appointed by the Prime Minister, the Republicans responded on Wednesday. In an interview with Les Échos, Olivier Marleix, the president of the LR group in the National Assembly, considered that the government was “trapped by the left wing of its majority”. He announced that his party was going to file a bill on immigration: “We decided with Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau [president of LR and president of the LR group in the Senate, editor’s note] to file a joint bill carried by The Republicans. »
Deploring a “situation out of control, in Mayotte, on the Franco-Italian border, in Seine-Saint-Denis”, Olivier Marleix assured that he did not want a “text to pretend”. “An overwhelming majority of French people are waiting for that to change,” he said.
For its part, the government has chosen to show that it is acting on this “priority” without waiting for a law. Elisabeth Borne announced the mobilization “as of next week” of “150 additional police and gendarmes in the Alpes-Maritimes”, to “deal with increased migratory pressure at the Italian border”.
