LR takes advantage of Emmanuel Macron’s hesitation to set course to the right

Divided on the pension reform, the Republicans are trying to rebuild their unity on the theme of immigration with two bills that the right intends to put on the agenda of Parliament soon: one to drastically reduce immigration facilitating evictions or restricting access to jus soli; and the other, even more muscular, to completely upset the Constitution. LR therefore takes advantage of Emmanuel Macron’s hesitations on this subject to set the course to the right!

>> Immigration: LR leaders unveil two bills to “take back control”

The right wants to allow France to free itself from European rules and derogate from international treaties on immigration legislation. This is clearly a breakup. And the slogan brandished by LR illustrates it: “Take back control!”. It was that of Boris Johnson at the time of the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom. On immigration, LR’s project is a Brexit that does not say its name. To meet the migratory challenge facing the entire continent, no more common rules laboriously implemented at European level, make way for everyone for themselves!

No more question of appearing as an auxiliary force for Emmanuel Macron

For LR, this lone rider has a goal: to circumvent what Bruno Retailleau calls in the Sunday newspaper “the government of judges“, that is to say the Constitutional Council and the European Court of Human Rights, and turn directly to the voters by promising them a referendum on immigration. That is, exactly what Marine Le Pen of Basically, LR claims to break with the last three decades of migration policy, including the Sarkozy years since the right wants to restore the double penalty which had been abolished by the former President.

But these two bills do not have the slightest chance of being adopted. And that’s not the goal. Weakened, let go by a good part of his troops on the pension reform, Eric Ciotti rejects this time as a whole “the balance“wanted by the government between accelerated expulsions and a new residence permit for “jobs in tension”. To try to recover his health, there is no longer any question of appearing as an extra force for Emmanuel Macron. Even if it means become the little telegrapher of Marine Le Pen’s proposals, and perhaps tomorrow, his deputy.