Backpedaling. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, called on the government on Wednesday December 13 in an interview with Figaro, has “resume version” of the immigration bill from the Senate, where the right had considerably toughened the text, while asking LR to “leniency” in the negotiations. The Minister of the Economy, however, says he hopes that “the LR understand that we must move the lines on two sensitive points for our majority: the AME and the conditions of access to social assistance” for foreigners, two points which had been restricted by the senatorial right. Follow our live stream.
A final vote scheduled for Tuesday in Parliament in the event of agreement in the joint committee. The immigration bill will be submitted to a final vote in Parliament on Tuesday, if it passes the obstacle of the joint joint committee on Monday evening, AFP learned on Wednesday from the Ministry of Relations with Parliament. 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.
Elisabeth Borne received LR officials in Matignon. 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.
Emmanuel Macron dismisses the idea of a dissolution. During a dinner at the Elysée on Tuesday, 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.