Immigration bill: a joint joint committee scheduled for December 18

This weekend again, meetings with the right continue in Matignon. Because the countdown has begun. Monday December 18 at 5 p.m., a joint committee (CMP) made up of seven deputies and seven senators will meet to try to find a compromise on the immigration bill. For Emmanuel Macron, either the CMP is conclusive or it is not and the text will be withdrawn. “I am in favor of an intelligent compromise being found in the service of the general interest of the country, and that it allows us to have a text which improves our common functioning and better protects the French.“, did he declare.

No recourse to 49.3

If the head of state seems optimistic, an agreement nevertheless seems difficult to negotiate with the right, which wants to take advantage of its position of strength to obtain a tougher text. A difficult agreement, but not impossible to find. The left, for its part, believes it has accomplished its duty by voting for the rejection motion, and hopes for a withdrawal of the text. The head of state excludes a 49.3 as well as a dissolution to vote on the text. Without agreement at the CMP, the immigration bill could be completely abandoned.