Long negotiations in Matignon. Elisabeth Borne received LR officials in Matignon on Wednesday December 13 late in the morning. They left after more than two hours of tense meeting, without any statement to the press. Those in charge of the presidential camp will be received from 4:30 p.m. The trip of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, planned for Wednesday in Calais, was postponed to Friday so that he could attend these meetings. The Prime Minister and the government seek a solution for the immigration bill After the vote, Monday, of a motion to reject by the deputies. Follow our live stream.
The joint committee will meet on Monday. The president of the law committee, Sacha Houlié (Renaissance), affirmed that the joint committee intended to try to reach an agreement on the immigration bill will meet Monday at 5 p.m. in the Assembly. The government hopes to find a compromise between the two chambers of Parliament within this commission, made up of seven deputies and as many senators.
“Get out of positions” to find a compromise. Yaël Braun-Pivet recalled that“today no one has the majority” in this commission composed of seven deputies and seven senators, neither the presidential camp which holds the relative majority in the Assembly nor the majority right in the Senate. It’s necessary “get out of postures” and “each one takes a step towards the other”she enjoined, summing up: “We have to find a compromise.”
Emmanuel Macron dismisses the idea of a dissolution. During a dinner at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron said he was ready to go to the end of the parliamentary path, and ruled out recourse to 49.3 or a dissolution. “If some people around this table consider that dissolution is a good idea, I tell them bluntly that they are wrong and I ask them to stop”he declared, according to several participants at this dinner.