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Immigration: the spleen of left-wing ministers
In government, they are some, rather from the left, to regret the sequence of pensions and immigration. “We come out of pensions and we get back into something that eats up all the space, well done”, grits a minister who does not hide his circumspection in front of the management of the immigration file: “Why don’t we remind the LR that we did a humanist, progressive, realistic campaign? It is therefore unthinkable, according to our interlocutor, to give up an inch on the question of the regularization of undocumented workers in sectors in tension. Same refusal concerning the abolition or even the evolution of State Medical Aid: “I have every confidence in the fact that we will not transform the AME into emergency medical aid.” And to conclude: “In all this, a call to the left is missing.”
… and Ciotti’s calculations
LR boss Eric Ciotti overtook the executive by unveiling two proposed laws – ordinary and constitutional – on immigration. The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes assures that a very firm project could find a majority in the Assembly, despite the sling of the left wing of Macronie. “It’s a false debate, he judges in private. I don’t see a lot of losses in the majority on the texts that we present. Macron would lose 10/15 deputies, maybe 20, but that’s incomparable to what one can bring.” Eric Ciotti has more doubts about Emmanuel Macron’s desire to overturn the table: “He has a shaking hand.”
Darmanin’s large table
Gérald Darmanin does not want to be… Élisabeth Borne. And hopes to show that immigration will not be a file comparable to that of pensions. The Minister of the Interior therefore intends to prove that he knows how to succeed in a parliamentary negotiation. For this, he plans a meeting in mid-June bringing together the chairman of the Law Commission Sacha Houlié, the leaders of the entire majority, the centrists and the parliamentary leaders of LR. Gérald Darmanin, currently in New Caledonia, exchanged by SMS with Olivier Marleix, whom he will see on his return to France.
Attal-Darmanin: “I have you, you have me, by the goatee”
By announcing in Le Parisien his wish to see the Vitale card and identity card merged in order to fight against Social Security fraud, the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal has drawn the wrath of Gérald Darmanin; Place Beauvau swearing, according to Politico, “never to have been consulted”. But this version of the facts would be a little simplistic according to a high-ranking minister, belonging to the left wing of Macronie. “The thing has been validated, even RIMé”, swears the latter. Let’s translate: the verb “RIMer” means that an interministerial meeting (the famous RIM) specifying the contours and the feasibility of a measure has taken place. But the meeting would not have given rise to any blues and would have taken place without the IGA (General Inspectorate of Administration), which depends on Beauvau. “We have to do this merger,” continues our interlocutor, still amazed by the reaction of the Ministry of the Interior. “Anyway, as soon as we try to hit Gerald, he hits harder.” Would this mean that the will to harm was shared?
“It’s painful, but…”: the taboo Marine Le Pen
Attacking Marine Le Pen on the history of her party? Above all discredit its proposals? Do both, but in what proportion? The reframing of Elisabeth Borne by the President of the Republic in the Council of Ministers has relaunched the debate in Macronie on the best angle to fight against the National Rally and prevent its leader from accessing the Élysée. But the troops of the Head of State are confronted with another slight problem concerning Marine Le Pen, which is very difficult to expose in public, as whispered by a majority official who has met her regularly since the start of the legislature to the Assembly: “She has gained enormously in posture and confidence… And then, it’s painful and we can’t afford to say it, but we have to admit it: Marine Le Pen is extraordinarily sympathetic. Sincerely likeable, she can’t cheat on it for a year. Talk to the makeup artists on TV shows, they’ve become her best ambassadors.”