Lionel Mendes, rapporteur of the text and Renaissance deputy, says he is more satisfied with the version censored by the Constitutional Council

The version of the immigration law censored at 40% by the Constitutional Council “satisfied a little more than what came out of the joint committee”, affirms Ludovic Mendes, Renaissance deputy for Moselle and rapporteur of the text, on France Culture Thursday January 25, after the decision of the Sages. “The government text remained as is, it is still present and it has not been censored.he continues, specifying that the law corresponds “the expectations of the French according to last year’s polls”that’s to say “firmness and at the same time better support for integration”.

The provisions added by Republican senators were “rebutted not on the merits, not on a political point of view, nor on the point of view of the judges”, but “simply because we do not respect the Constitution because they brought legislative riders who had nothing to do with the original text”, assures the rapporteur of the immigration law. For him, basically, these are measures “which create unequal treatment, reception problems and no longer let our values ​​’Liberty, equality, fraternity’ dominate our legal text”.

The attitude of the Republicans criticized

Ludovic Mendes denounces “a voluntary tactic on the part of the Republicans to say to themselves ‘we are going to follow through with the process, we are leaving no choice to the government and the majority, they will be rejected by the Constitutional Council and we will be able to continue to shout on TV sets to whine that we need to change the Constitution’.

“There are things that could have been improved in public session, unfortunately we were not able to do so” because of the motion for prior rejection, regrets Ludovic Mendes. He believes that this motion took away from parliamentarians the “freedom to debate”.