after the vote on the rejection motion, is the left really winning?

A rejection motion was voted on Monday by the National Assembly against the immigration bill. Since then, the left has declared victory but the law which can be adopted by the joint committee risks being harsher.

The National Rally is riding the crisis and demanding a dissolution, The Republicans are raising the stakes, one wonders if the left is the big loser in the vote on the motion to reject the examination of the text on immigration, Monday December 11. Because to advance its bill, the government is opting for a joint committee. A majority right-wing commission which risks toughening the text even further, the opposite of what Nupes wanted.

A left-wing MP anticipated this scenario. The ecologist Delphine Batho is the only one from her camp to have voted against the motion to reject: “We had to take into account the risk, that is to say the return to the Senate text, a kind of museum of horrors with the abolition of state medical aid, the calling into question of land law. This possible consequence was predictable in the vote that took place on Monday. For me, it is a political mistake.”

But for others like his colleague from the environmental group Benjamin Lucas, who initiated the motion to reject the immigration bill, the French had to be spared a xenophobic debate. “First, there is no guarantee that the text would have been less harsh after 15 days of debate during which the Minister of the Interior would have bargained with the right. We wanted the text to be rejected because it is a bad text, written for the wrong reasons, which is extremely harsh and brutal. It’s not a game.”

“No more majority” after the transition to CMP

Even if the version becomes tougher in the joint committee, it will have no chance afterwards, during the vote in the hemicycle, according to the Insoumis Eric Coquerel: “At that point, there will not be a majority to vote for a more right-wing text. It will not necessarily be the same majority that refuses it, it will perhaps come from certain Macronists, and I think that it will there will be no more majority.” The left is therefore preparing to once again reject the text which could come out of the joint committee and is demanding its definitive withdrawal.