In favor of the abolition of land rights in Mayotte, announced by the government, the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, wished Thursday February 15 not to “limit” this debate “only to Mayotte” and mentioned the cases of Guyana and the island of Saint-Martin.
The reform envisaged by the executive, which will involve a modification of the Constitution, “does not solve everything, but it is an extremely strong signal”, because “Mayotte is in a terrible situation” and “we have the duty to protect our compatriots,” declared Mr. Larcher on BFM-TV and RMC.
Already anticipating the “necessary debate” on the abolition of land law, the President of the Senate estimated that “we must not limit ourselves, in the debate that we will have, only to Mayotte”.
The subject was also recently “raised for Guyana [and] Saint-Martin”, within the framework of the immigration law passed in December, but this measure was rejected by the Constitutional Council “for reasons of form”. , he recalled.
“Beyond these three overseas communities”, Mr. Larcher estimated that “the reality of migratory phenomena today in Europe and in the world must lead us to re-examine ourselves” on “the conditions of exercise of soil law and blood law”, while saying he is in favor of “soil law, because it constitutes our history”.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced on Sunday a project to revise the Constitution to remove land rights in Mayotte, explaining that this constituted a factor of attraction for emigrants coming from neighboring Comoros. The far right welcomed this announcement, while believing that it should not be confined to Mayotte. While the left said it was worried.
