The president of the Les Républicains group in the Assembly defends the two bills on immigration drawn up by his party.
“There’s no” of negotiations between the right and the government on the immigration bill, according to the president of the group Les Républicains (LR) in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix. “The government has not come back to us, it seems to lack the will on the subject”he estimates Tuesday, June 27 on franceinfo.
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“I don’t think they really know where they are going” he says again. However, time is running out for the executive: Elisabeth Borne will present or take stock of several reforms, including that on immigration, “in the first 15 days of July”announced Emmanuel Macron on Monday in a daily interview Provence.
49.3 remains “a red line”
Olivier Marleix repeats his warning about a possible 49.3 to get this bill passed. It’s a “Red line”for him. “The French would not support, I think, an additional sloppiness, would not support pretending”, estimates the deputy of Eure-et-Loir. LR refuses, for example, the creation of a residence permit for undocumented workers in shortage occupations. Whether “the terms are discussed”it stays “an objective” for the Prime Minister.
The leader of the LR deputies defends the two bills on immigration drawn up by his party. One provides for the inclusion in the Constitution of the possibility of derogating from the treaties and European law in this area. Something to scandalize Dominique de Villepin, for whom the right is now hunting on the lands of the National Rally. “A strategic mistake” and an “dangerous drift”judged the former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac on Wednesday on France Inter.
“I have respect for Dominique de Villepin, I can’t let him say that either”replies Olivier Marleix. “I think Dominique de Villepin needs to realize that times have changed, that today the vast majority of French people want to say stop to a certain number of excesses, want a turning point, I believe, without quite radical doubt about this takeover of our destiny”, he assures. For him, “today our country is no longer capable of integrating” and “it is time for Dominique de Villepin to realize this”.