While the Senate adopted the pension reform committee on Tuesday evening, the right-wing majority in the upper house is behind the scenes preparing for the arrival of another text: the immigration law. Hadrien Bect’s political brief.
A law can hide another … The executive wants to believe that as on the pension reform, it is easier to deal with senators. And it is therefore at the Luxembourg Palace that the immigration law, carried by Gérald Darmanin and Olivier Dussopt will begin its journey. The two ministers were also heard on Tuesday, February 28, in the evening, in committee. And if the Minister of the Interior may have assured that he was ready to restrict family reunification, a theme dear to the right, the senatorial majority, between centrists and Les Républicains is for the moment divided on the attitude to adopt. .
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Because, among the key measures of the law, the Senate does not want the creation of a residence permit “jobs in tension”, “social” component of the law, supposed in particular to satisfy the left wing of the macronie. “It is not suitable for conversion, the prerequisite is withdrawal“, confides a senator. The question, then, is what to replace it with: there, there are three lines, the conciliatory, the hard, and … the very hard.
“A Chimera”
Some LR senators are considering, for example, leaving the prefects the possibility of regularizing by profession, on a case-by-case basis. Gérald Darmanin would not have said no, except that the idea really does not appeal to the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau, who does not want immigration quotas either. “For this to be effective, it would have to go through the Constitution“, judges one of his relatives. In short, the senatorial majority must meet next week to try to find points of agreement. And it will not be easy, believes a right-wing strategist: “Retailleau wants to show that he holds a line of firmness, on immigration and vis-à-vis the executive.“Because it’s almost a matter of principle:”Bruno is not ready to help the government on pensions AND on immigration“, believes a right-wing elected official.
Moreover, a relative of the boss of senators LR entrusts him with a smile, evoking Sacha Houlié, the president of the law commission of the Assembly, figure of the left wing of Renaissance. “A text that would have the agreement of Retailleau and Houlié, who imagines that? It would be a chimera“, we smile. In good French, this means that it will be difficult to find a majority on the text in the Assembly, from the left wing of Renaissance to the right of LR. That’s what recently sensed a leading macronist: “It’s a text radically right and radically left, so it will not be easy to vote“.