A column signed by 35 French parliamentarians demanding that the future immigration law include regularization of undocumented workers appears this Tuesday, September 12 in the daily Release. Among the signatories, 10 deputies from the presidential majority alongside elected officials more accustomed to this type of position, ecologists, communists and even socialists.
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Smirk, Boris Vallaudmeeting in Bordeaux with the PS parliamentarians until tomorrow, is not dissatisfied with the effect of this column published in Release. He walks towards the microphones. The president of the socialist group in the National Assembly knows that the platform he co-signed will get people talking… and that is the objective.
“ We affirm a position to escape from great hypocrisy. There are many undocumented foreigners who operate a certain number of sectors of activity, construction, public works, cleaning, hotels and restaurants. But they are kept in great precariousness, in a lawless situation. We have to get out of this », Estimates Boris Vallaud.
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Awareness or manipulation?
Because the fear on the left and in part of the majority is that the Immigration lawconstantly rejected by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin who seeks support on the right, loses along the way the few gains outlined for undocumented immigrants.
Boris Vallaud also sees an awareness in the left slope of Macronie: “ Perhaps he is realizing that left and right are not the same thing. So, the conclusion: he opposes the government he is supposed to support.”
But at the PS some people are pouting. They see a risk of manipulation from the executive and above all reject the repressive part of the text drawn up until then by the government. “ We think that we will be able to seduce some on the right by having very harsh measures and on the other side seduce the left because we will have so-called sweet measures, the windshield wipers on subjects of values and principles, It is not possible », deplores Jérôme Guedj, deputy for Essonne.
LFI not a signatory to the forum
And the subject is also divisive at Nupes. Unlike its allies, France Insoumise refused to sign the platform, even though it had participated in the preparatory meetings.
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