After the Arras attack, the right wants to push the government to toughen up its text on immigration by asking in particular for a referendum and a revision of the Constitution.
After the Arras attack, the right takes Gérald Darmanin at his word. On Saturday, the Minister of the Interior explained that he could not expel 4,000 delinquent foreigners because the current law prevents him from doing so, particularly if they arrived in France before the age of 13. The Arras terrorist, who was five years old when he arrived in France, was, for example, not deportable. Gérald Darmanin’s project plans to remove from the territory foreign offenders who arrived on national soil before their six years, if they are sentenced to a heavy sentence. That was not the case with this terrorist. Which makes LR say that Gérald Darmanin’s copy does not go far enough.
Place Beauvau, however, ensures that by reducing the possibilities of recourse against the Obligations to leave French territory, the OQTF, as it provides in its new text, the terrorist could have been expelled after being implicated in a case of violence marital relations in February 2023. An argument which, according to the government, should convince the right to follow the Minister of the Interior. This morning, Emmanuel Macron asks the prefects to comb through the file of deportable radicals, just to show themselves ruthless from now on.
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LR proposes a revision of the constitution to facilitate expulsions
The right nevertheless considers that this is insufficient. Right-wing senators will want to toughen Gérald Darmanin’s text, which will be examined in the hemicycle from November 6. We have to see what exactly LR will propose, because the Minister of the Interior is generally inclined to be more firm. The problem is that the right is also putting back on the table its proposal for a referendum and revision of the Constitution to put national rules above European rules.
On X, the former Twitter, Éric Ciotti calls on Emmanuel Macron to change the Constitution, to facilitate expulsions. “We want to regain control of immigrationconfides Bruno Retailleau, but without a referendum and without constitutional revision it won’t go far.”. The senatorial right will also examine its proposal to revise the Constitution on December 12. A centrist warns against overbidding: “the law which prevents all cases does not exist, we cannot do anythinghe said, otherwise we fall into something other than the rule of law, and it is dangerous the day when it is no longer Republicans who are in power”.