“There will be no text if there is no majority without the National Rally”, said Tuesday, December 19 the Minister of the Interior before the National Assembly, which is examining the immigration bill resulting from the agreement reached in the joint committee (CMP). “This text will be voted on without the votes of the National Rally”, insisted Gérald Darmanin. Marine Le Pen announced a little earlier that the RN deputies would vote for the text, toughened during the joint committee, claiming a “ideological victory”.
During a meeting with the Prime Minister, the presidents of the parliamentary groups and the majority party leaders on Tuesday evening, Emmanuel Macron considered a second deliberation in the event of adoption of the text with the votes of the RN. “If the text passes with the votes of the RN, then the president will activate article 10 of the Constitution., explains one of the participants in this meeting to France Télévisions. Follow our live stream.
The text adopted in the Senate. Unsurprisingly, the upper house, majority on the right, largely voted on Tuesday, December 19, for the new version of the immigration bill resulting from the agreement reached in the joint committee (CMP). The text gathered 214 votes for and 114 against.
Several Renaissance deputies announce that they will not vote for the text. On social networks, a dozen Renaissance deputies declared that they were going to vote against the text resulting from the joint committee, including a figure from the left wing of the majority, Sacha Houlié, who nevertheless chaired the CMP. The centrist Liot group, which is not part of the majority, but whose support was expected by the executive, for its part requested the withdrawal of the text. Follow our live stream.
Elisabeth Borne denounces “gross maneuver” of the RN. During a meeting Tuesday evening with Renaissance deputies, the Prime Minister castigated the “grossière maneuver” of the National Rally, which announced its intention to vote on the text in the Assembly. “We will assess the results of the vote without taking into account the votes of the RN”declared the head of government, Franceinfo learned from a participant in the meeting.
Gérald Darmanin promises to “double” regularization of undocumented workers. The Interior Minister said on Tuesday evening that if the immigration bill was passed by Parliament, it would allow “double” the number of regularizations of undocumented workers. This represents “between 7 000 to 10 000″ additional titles “every year”, he clarified before the Senate.
Several ministers from the left wing of the government meet and consider resigning. Figures from the presidential camp such as the Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, the Minister for Industry, Roland Lescure, the responsible for education, Sylvie Retailleau, meet Tuesday evening, according to information from franceinfo. Announced as participants in this meeting, Rima Abdul Malak, Minister of Culture, and Aurélien Rousseau for Health deny participating.
The left castigates the CMP. “The majority gave in on all the red lines and crossed the navy blue lines”denounced the president of the socialist group Boris Vallaud, member of the commission, to journalists on Monday evening. This CMP is “a masquerade of democracy”, declared the leader of the La France insoumise group, Mathilde Panot, calling in unison with several left-wing elected officials for the withdrawal of the text. The executive had promised to do so if the commission failed.