Olivier Véran “prefers an opposition which proposes rather than an opposition which is content to contest everything”

“I prefer an opposition that proposes, rather than an opposition that remains silent and is content to contest everything”, said government spokesman Olivier Véran on Tuesday May 23 on France Inter, after the Republicans’ proposals on immigration. The LR camp’s bills include submitting migration policy to a referendum, enshrining the principle of assimilation in the Constitution, or even restoring the offense of illegal residence.

The government wants a compromise with LR

Key partner for a possible parliamentary compromise on the executive bill, Eric Ciotti’s party intends to impose its own tempo by asking in particular for a reform of the Constitution which, in migration matters, would allow France to leave the European treaties. . “The right has put proposals on the table, I do not agree with many of these proposals but they have the merit of existing: it allows us to engage in dialogue”, underlined the spokesman of the government. For Olivier Véran, the immigration bill must be debated in the National Assembly “to deflate a certain number of problems, but also to be able to recognize that there are things that need to be improved and then reinforced”.

“Neither angelism, nor demonization”he warned. “We need to be able to set the terms of the debate with the French so that we understand what we are talking about in order to get away from prejudices and systematic attacks on the one hand, and from a form of well-being on the other. angelic thought that can worry the French”, he specified. Olivier Véran invites the left “to make proposals and to take up this challenge” in order to “sometimes respond to the concerns of the French or the needs of companies”.