Even the political back-to-school can look like a postcard. To attack the legislative year, the 21 deputies of the group Freedom, independent, overseas and territories (Liot) chose to meet from September 4 to 8 at some 7,500 kilometers from the Palais-Bourbon, in Guadeloupe. A choice of destination, unprecedented for a parliamentary return, which was intended to be a symbol of the attention paid by these elected officials to the themes specific to the territories “too often forgotten” by the capital: “Due to the geographical distance, the territories of Overseas need special attention, that we are interested in their own problems, pleads the regionalist deputy of Brittany, Paul Molac. We realize here that they are faced with the same difficulties as in mainland France, but in an exacerbated way. »
At Créole Beach, an opulent hotel on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, the parliamentary group continues round tables, as if to stop the list of its demands on the government. Complaints to which the executive will have to listen if it hopes for the valuable support of some of its deputies on the most sensitive texts of the year. “The exchange and the search for political compromises is our trademark. But we have to work on points of agreement, “slips the deputy of Haute-Corse, Jean-Félix Acquaviva, requesting a popular consultation of the Corsicans before a reform of the status of his island. Salle de la Route-du-Rhum, the deputy of Guadeloupe, Olivier Sera, insists on purchasing power, the imposition of 0% VAT in certain territories and the integration of the life bonus expensive in the calculation of pension rights. The deputy of Reunion, Nathalie Bassire, pleads for the end of the Pinel device overseas. When Estelle Youssouffa, MP for Mayotte, calls for the addition of provisions specific to her island in the future Immigration law.
