10:18 – The Minister of the Interior wants a new immigration law
Bruno Retailleau wishes to extend the maximum duration of administrative detention of irregular migrants up to 210 days, when they have committed certain crimes. “We need a legislative vector to modify this point” and “a new immigration law”, the Minister of the Interior even declared this morning on RTL. For Bruno Retailleau, “those who arrived irregularly on French territory, overseas, as well as in mainland France, are not intended to stay with us”, he said, adding: “When we violate borders, it must be a crime.” Asked about a short sentence pronounced by a far-right MP, who described him on Tuesday as “a spokesperson for the RN”, he replied: “I am a spokesperson for the French, my obsession is to speak the language that the French understand, not a technocratic language that appeals to the microcosm.
09:41 – Gérarld Darmanin openly criticizes Michel Barnier
“We have to explain what we are going to do with the country,” Gérald Darmanin said this morning on France Info. “I made a commitment to the voters that there will be no tax increase. I will not vote for a tax increase. […] For the moment, the budget as announced seems unacceptable to me,” indicated the former Minister of the Interior, pillar of the EPR party, which is part of the government coalition. The threat from the Tourcoing deputy is not not trivial and demonstrates that the government is having difficulty finding a balance for the upcoming budget “We return to the socialist era of François Hollande when we talk about a tax which corresponds to more than half of the tax cut. we had done,” added Gérald Darmanin, referring to the tax increases mentioned by Michel Barnier.