Gérald Darmanin still hoped, Friday on Franceinfo, for a “compromise” on the immigration bill which arrives in session at the National Assembly on Monday.
For several days, Les Républicains have announced that they will not vote on the text in the National Assembly, but in an interview with Le Parisien, Saturday December 9, Eric Ciotti, the president of the Les Républicains party, clarified things with the presidential camp .
He suggests that he could call for a vote for a rejection motion tabled by environmentalists. “We will decide our position on Monday,” says Mr. Ciotti, regarding this motion, which will be the subject of a vote on Monday at the Palais Bourbon. “The adoption of a motion to reject would result in a new debate on the Senate text,” notes Mr. Ciotti in the interview. He recalls that LR had also tabled a motion of rejection but that it was that of the environmentalist deputies which was drawn by lot.
“Only the text coming out of the Senate” is suitable for LR
“We want the senatorial right’s text to be preserved. The current bill was completely distorted by the Assembly’s Law Committee under pressure from the Macronist “at the same time”, since we witnessed a total change of course decided by the left wing of the majority and endorsed by Gérald Darmanin,” he insists, suggesting that it would be logical to vote for the motion, even tabled by environmentalists whose grievances against the bill are the polar opposite of those of the right. “The only condition for voting on this text would be that the government takes up in full all the points of the Senate and that it commits to working on a constitutional reform approved by referendum,” he said. “There is no courage in this government bill, only communication,” he laments.
A reference to the reform of the Constitution advocated by LR, which requests in particular that France can deviate from European rules and that Parliament sets “migratory ceilings” each year.
If all the oppositions united on Monday in favor of the motion, the examination of the bill would be interrupted immediately in the Assembly. Which would give control back to the Senate, unless the government convenes a joint committee of elected officials from both chambers. But the LR deputies are divided. For its part, the RN maintains the mystery about its position. The latter will not disclose its strategy before Monday, said RN MP Laure Lavalette on Friday. While his colleague Jean-Philippe Tanguy told Agence France Presse on Thursday that the RN would not vote for it, wishing to “debate”.
In this same interview, Mr. Ciotti suggests giving up organizing the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games on the Seine, because security might not be guaranteed there. “The attack on the Eiffel Tower showed our immense fragilities in terms of security.” According to him, “We have to think of a plan B, for example at the Stade de France, in a closed and secure place. I ask the government to have no taboos when it comes to the security of the French,” he adds.
