Was the “immigration” bill passed without the support of the far right? The element of language of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, was taken up on Wednesday December 20 on France Inter by Elisabeth Borne. The Prime Minister, in turn, welcomed the fact that the bill “was passed without the votes of the National Rally [RN]”, in accordance with “a principle that [the presidential camp had] given itself”.
Macronie justifies its calculations by an exercise in political fiction. The Prime Minister maintains that if the RN deputies had abstained, then it would have been adopted “with 261 votes for and 186 against”, since in this case the absolute majority would have been 224 votes. Ms. Borne even assures that if the RN deputies had opposed the bill, the text would still have passed: “If the RN had voted against, I think we would have had votes, we would have had votes in more. »
There is nothing to support these assumptions. Conversely, if we add the 88 votes of RN deputies to the 186 votes against, in the event that the RN had decided not to support a text which takes up many of its hobby horses, the bill no. would not have reached the threshold necessary for its adoption.
Furthermore, the RN and Les Républicains (LR) are the only two groups to have fully approved the text (88 deputies in favor out of 88 registered deputies), while the Renaissance group recorded 20 votes against and 17 abstentions.
The RN finally represents, behind the Renaissance group (131 votes in favor), the second largest contingent of deputies in favor of the text. This is not enough to assert that the “immigration” bill was adopted “thanks” to the RN, but enough to state that it was not, obviously, adopted “without” him.