17 deputies The Republicans say they are ready to vote for “if the spirit of the project voted by the Senate prevails”

In a column published in “La Tribune Dimanche”, these LR deputies adopt a more open position than the leadership of the group in the Assembly which had warned that Renaissance should not “expect to have a majority” on this text.

An opening on the right? Seventeen deputies The Republicans say they are ready to vote on the immigration bill, which arrives for debate in committee at the National Assembly on Monday, “if the spirit of the Senate project prevails”in a column published in La Tribune Sunday, Sunday November 26. They want to be “constructive” and adopt a more open position than the group’s management on this text.

Indeed, the president of the LR group at the Assembly Olivier Marleix had warned on Tuesday that Renaissance would not “should not expect to have a majority” on this text, “at least, not with us”if it was not accompanied by a reform of the Constitution. “We intend to preserve the main achievements of the Senate and improve this law as much as possible”, ensure these 17 deputies, including Julien Dive, Virginie Duby-Muller and Philippe Juvin. For them, “the unraveling of the Senate text is obviously the main threat to the future of this law”.

“Amend yes. Annihilate no.”

Seventeen deputies The Republicans

in a column published in La Tribune Dimanche

They recall that “most of the senators of the presidential majority voted for the text in the Senate” and return “the ball (…) in the government’s court” and of “the presidential majority, of its left wing in particular”.

An open door to avoid a new 49.3?

For several months, the right has made a reform of article 11 of the Constitution, which would allow the organization of referendums to be extended to migration issues, the heart of its demands concerning immigration. But a referendum on immigration was ruled out by President Emmanuel Macron following the second meetings in Saint-Denis on November 17.

According to them, the new wording of article 3 (now 4 bis), which provided for the regularization of illegal immigrants working in sectors in tension, preserves “the discretionary power of prefects” and is “a firm response which does not create an enforceable right on the merits”. An opinion not shared by Olivier Marleix for whom article 4 bis “is not a good solution”. This opening to the right is a door to allow the government, which only has a relative majority, to avoid a new use of 49.3.