French President Emmanuel Macron and several party leaders met this Friday, November 17 at the Education House of the Legion of Honor, for the second time since August, to carry out discussion on future constitutional reforms. . If the question of a referendum on immigration was on the agenda, it was quickly ruled out.
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Emmanuel Macron and several party leaders, half of whom had declined the invitation, gathered in Saint-Denis for the second time for nine hours, were at least in agreement on one thing: no majority around the table for a referendum on immigration. Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the Communist Party, believes that we must push the debate in Parliament.
“ There is a consensus that emerged around the table on the fact that it seems complicated to expand the possibility of obtaining referendums on societal subjects such as immigration », Reports the MP at the microphone of Charlotte Urien-Tomaka from the RFI political department.
Identical satisfaction for the national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier, who also thinks that the debate in Parliament is amply sufficient. “ This referendum on immigration will therefore not take place. Months and months of parliamentary debates will be enough for us on the subject, as one of the participants said. The submersion at the moment in Nord-Pas-de-Calais is not due to migrants but to climate change, and it’s not even me who said that, so it’s to tell you that it’s a subject on which there was no consensus. »
Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, was therefore alone at the table to defend the idea of a referendum. “ Today I was in Saint-Denis, the only spokesperson for France who wants to control immigration. »
A consultation however initially proposed by the president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, absent from this meeting. But according to Emmanuel Macron’s entourage, the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher, from the ranks of the right, is also opposed to the idea of a referendum on the subject.
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