On Tuesday, November 7, the Senate adopted the abolition of state medical aid (AME), reserved for undocumented immigrants, transformed into “emergency medical aid” during the examination of the immigration bill, a reform introduced by the senatorial right to which the government did not oppose. The Minister for Health Professions Agnès Firmin Le Bodo justified the government’s abstention by the fact that this reform “has nothing to do” in the immigration bill, a “advice of wisdom” which allowed the adoption of the reform by 200 votes for and 136 against. It could still be challenged in the National Assembly. Follow our live stream.
Towards the deletion of the controversial article 3. Lelected officials The Republicans and their centrist allies have found a “agreement” on the regularization of undocumented workers in professions in shortage, paving the way for adoption of the text in the Senate, announced the LR group. This “compromise” provides for the deletion of article 3 which allowed the granting of a residence permit for undocumented workers in sectors with a labor shortage, and which was a red line of the right. But it also includes the upcoming addition of legislative measures aimed at “frame” THE “regularization power of prefects. Follow our live stream.
The Senate votes to establish “quotas” and toughens family reunification. The institution adopted amendments adding two new measures to the government’s project: the establishment of quotas in migration matters and the tightening of conditions for family reunification. The government did not oppose these proposals from the senatorial right, adopted by a show of hands.
Consideration of Article 3 postponed. This flagship measure of the bill, which was to be debated on Tuesday evening, will finally be examined later in the week, like articles 4 to 7, the franceinfo political service learned from parliamentary sources. Article 3, which provides for the possibility of regularization of undocumented workers in sectors with labor shortages, is a source of tension within the chamber. “If article 3 must remain, it will be impossible for us to vote on the text.” hammered the boss of LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, Monday.
A contested text. An opposition rally to the government’s project was held on Monday in front of the Senate, while 35 associations and collectives highlighted during a press conference a text contrary to the “humanist principles”, pointing in particular to the possible abolition of state medical aid (AME) for undocumented immigrants, which the Senate wants to transform into emergency medical aid with a more restricted scope.