Aurélien Rousseau confirmed to World his intention to resign from the post of Minister of Health, Wednesday December 20, the day after the adoption of the immigration bill by Parliament. The former communist declared to the daily on Tuesday that he “did not give left-wing or moral lessons to anyone” but he noticed “clinically than this[était] not possible for [lui] to explain this text. He is not present at the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, franceinfo learned from government sources. Earlier in the morning, Elisabeth Borne had affirmed that Emmanuel Macron “had not received the resignation” of the Minister of Health. Follow our live stream.
The majority divided. In the National Assembly, the bill was adopted without the votes of 59 majority deputies, who abstained or voted against the text of the joint committee. A sign of this unease, the president of the Laws Committee and the CMP, Sacha Houlié, voted against. And the president of the MoDem group, Jean-Paul Mattei, abstained.
The right and the RN welcome the results of the vote. The boss of the Les Républicains party, Eric Ciotti, greeted Tuesday evening “a historic victory for the right” with the adoption of the immigration bill. Marine Le Pen also claims “an indisputable ideological victory” of the National Rally.
The left criticizes the text. The president of the socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, denounced Tuesday evening a “disgrace to the majority”while Jean-Luc Mélenchon, figure of La France insoumise, criticized X “a law passed and written jointly” with the RN. The head of environmentalist deputies, Cyrielle Chatelain, accused Emmanuel Macron of having “betrayed his voters” by allowing the RN “to enshrine one’s ideas in law”.
Emmanuel Macron will speak on Wednesday evening. The Head of State will be the guest of the program “C à vous”, on France 5, Wednesday at 7 p.m. He must come back “on the key moments of 2023” And “will address the prospects for 2024”specifies France Télévisions.