Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin arrived on Monday evening, December 11, at the Elysée to speak with Emmanuel Macron, after the surprise rejection by the National Assembly of his bill on immigration. “Back from Toulouse where he was traveling, the President of the Republic will meet with the Minister of the Interior at the Elysée”, announced the entourage of the Head of State. Follow our live reactions to the adoption of the motion to reject the immigration bill.
The LR and RN deputies voted for the motion to reject. “Your government allowed the Senate’s firm text to be trampled on in committee”told the minister the boss of the LR group Olivier Marleix, who is now demanding a return to the version of the text adopted by the Senate. “If we had a text that resembled that of the Senate, we could vote for it”he declared in the Four Columns room, after the adoption of the motion to reject.
The motion to reject filed by environmentalists adopted. The left, the right and the far right agreed to unite around the preliminary rejection motion tabled by the environmentalists to immediately interrupt the examination of some 2,600 amendments which were to be discussed on the text. Precisely, 270 deputies voted for this rejection, while 265 voted against.
D-Day at the National Assembly. After more than a year of procrastination, the immigration bill, defended by the Minister of the Interior, arrived in the chamber at 4 p.m. Gérald Darmanin hoped to defend his text, adopted by the law committee, after a first reading in the Senate. But his plans were thwarted by the vote on a prior rejection motion.
An “incomprehensible” rejection, according to the majority. “Arithmetically, there are more opponents than majority, since we have a relative majority”, recognized Gérald Darmanin. But “it would be a denial of democracy not to debate”he judged Monday on Europe 1. “It would be incomprehensible, the Assembly would shoot itself in the foot”added its president, Yaël Braun-Pivet on RTL.