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While the discussions have not yet started, the right already seems to be in a position of strength. And for good reason: the version examined by the CMP is none other than the version developed by the Senate – with a right-wing majority. To defend its version of the text, it can count on several of its elected officials, very present within the CMP.

Anxious not to abandon the fight against the migration crisis at the National Rally – the RN deputy for Gard, Yoann Gillet, will participate in the CMP -, the leader of the LR senators Bruno Retailleau has imposed himself. There is no question for this former disciple of Philippe de Villiers to renounce a debate on which his political family is eagerly awaited. He will thus sit alongside two of his colleagues: the senator from Morbihan Muriel Jourda, co-rapporteur of his group on the bill, and the president of the Senate Laws Committee, François-Noël Buffet.

MP Annie Genevard, number three in the party chaired by Éric Ciotti, is the only LR MP to be among the members of this commission. Everyone is demanding, unsurprisingly, a return to a much more repressive version of the text, that is to say the version voted by the Senate in mid-November. Will they also be able to count on the support of Macronist deputies? Marie Guénevoux, the former close friend of François Fillon, will be there: she notably distinguished herself, in 2018, as a fervent supporter of the immigration law passed by Gérard Collomb, then Minister of the Interior.

Aware that the majority risks having to comply with the demands of the right, the left knows that it will not weigh heavily in the balance, despite the presence of several defenders of a softened version of the text. PS senator from Paris Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie, former deputy of Bertrand Delanoë at town hall, is notably part of the casting. Just like Corinne Narassiguin, new socialist recruit to the upper house. Just elected, the senator from Seine-Saint-Denis will have a lot to do: she has been tasked by her group with defending a large part of the amendments to the bill. The only representative of La France insoumise within the CMP: MP Andrée Taurinya. The elected representative of the Loire had notably denounced an “inhuman and racist” law.

To defend the social measures of the immigration text, left-wing elected officials are hoping for the support of certain centrists, like Philippe Bonnecarrère. During the examination of the bill last November, the senator from Tarn notably stood as an unconditional defender of the regularization of undocumented workers in professions in shortage.

Among the Renaissance elected officials, we will include the president of the Law Commission of the National Assembly Sacha Houlié. The rising star of the Bourbon Palace will chair the joint commission. Guest of France 2 this Thursday, December 14, the former PS was forced to admit that the majority “unquestionably” leaves with a handicap against LR in the negotiations.

“It is clear today that a majority can only be found between Renaissance and the Republicans.” Thus, “if we reach an agreement, yes”, the text will be more to the right, admitted the spokesperson for the left wing of the macronie. Within the CMP, it will also count on the senator from Orne Olivier Bitz. Formerly a member of the Socialist Party, this former prefect was elected senator under the banner of the presidential majority during the senatorial elections of September 2023.

At his side, the deputy for Gironde Florent Boudié, with whom he shares an ideological proximity within his new political family. General rapporteur of the text and specialist in sovereign issues, his mission is one of the most delicate: to try to preserve the unity of the majority around the text. Understand: avoid the emergence of a slingshot in the left hemisphere of macronia for which the abandonment of article three of the text constitutes a red line.