The left is upwind. A “sickening victory” says Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise, an immigration law directly inspired “from the program of Jean-Marie Le Pen”, criticizes Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, pointing out measures such as “national preference on social benefits, loss of nationality” or even “questioning the rights of the soil”… After eighteen months of reversals on the subject of the immigration law, Parliament definitively approved the text, Tuesday December 19, the deputies of Les Républicains and the Rassemblement National having joined the majority text. A parliamentary victory for Emmanuel Macron but which at the same time opens a deep divide within his group, part of which turned away from a text supported at the last minute by the far right.
Faced with virulent criticism from the left, associations and part of its majority on this right-oriented text, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assures that she “ensured that this text respects our values”. She estimated that the law, passed by 349 votes to 186, had been adopted without the 88 votes of the RN which “said the cuckoo”. On
If the RN voted against, the text would not pass
But is it really true that the executive did not need to rely on the forces of the extreme right? The Assembly voted on the immigration law with 349 votes for and 186 votes against, out of 573 voters, the RN and LR having joined forces for the majority. Within the latter, 59 votes were missing, between those who abstained or voted against the text. If the 88 deputies of the National Rally had abstained, the text would still have been adopted by a relative majority, 261 votes in favor and 186 votes against.
However, the result would have been different if they had voted against, thus tipping the scales to 274 votes against on the one hand and 261 votes for the other. Far-right MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy also welcomed this situation: “This evening, if the National Rally deputies voted against, this text would not pass, contrary to the lies uttered by Mr. Darmanin. is a total victory for the ideas defended by Marine Le Pen.” The latter rejoiced in an “ideological victory”.
For her part, the head of the environmentalist deputies Cyrielle Chatelain castigated Emmanuel Macron who “buried the excess”. “He betrayed his voters. The only mandate given to the president was to block the far right and he allowed his ideas to be enshrined in law,” she protested.
Crisis in the majority
The president of LR, Eric Ciotti, welcoming a “historic victory for the right”, called on the majority “in crisis”, to “take into account” the fact that the Republicans had allowed “in substance and form” adoption of this text”. “Let her finally understand that at the same time is impotence.”
The adoption of this very right-wing text in fact destabilizes the majority in the Assembly. “We are in the hands of the RN, we have lost on all counts” and Marine Le Pen “won everything”, exasperated a Renaissance MP. The president of the Laws Committee, Sacha Houlié, voted against the bill while the president of the MoDem group, Jean-Paul Mattei, abstained.
The slump also affects the government. Government spokesperson Olivier Véran confirmed on Wednesday the resignation of Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau, “absent this morning at the Council of Ministers”, replaced “in the interim” by the current Minister Delegate in charge of Health Professions Agnès Firmin- The Bodo.