In France, while the executive is still seeking a compromise, the Republicans are refining their own proposals on immigration. A bill must be tabled this week in the Senate and the Assembly with a whole bunch of very firm measures. Measures which are unlikely to be voted on as they stand in the Assembly, for lack of a majority, but which allow the LRs to score points.
The organization of a referendum on the question of immigration, the reinstatement of the offense of illegal residence or the abolition of almost all social aid for foreigners in an irregular situation… Here is what can be found in the immigration bill submitted by the Republicansreports Pierrick Bonno from the political service of RFI.
After the disastrous episode of the pension reform, the LRs had to find the parade to bounce back. It’s done, they say. ” It hits! We make proposals and we exist again politically », Rejoices a right-wing deputy.
Pressure on the majority
For Éric Ciotti and the Republicans, the blow is threefold. These very right-wing proposals embarrass the majority on the one hand, because they put pressure on the executive, which is seeking a compromise with LR at all costs to have its own project adopted. And it works? This Sunday, according to the Ministry of the Interior, the government says it is ready to toughen its mechanism for regularizing undocumented workers in shortage occupations in an attempt to obtain a compromise with LR on the immigration text.
An outstretched hand from the government, which comes after two interviews on Sunday with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Gerald Darmanin on this subject, which has been pending for several months. The executive wishes to reach a review of the text this fall, once the senatorial elections have passed, for adoption at the end of the year.
“ Voters are not fooled »
Benefit also for LR : their initiative also encroaches on the flat strips of the extreme right and the National Rally, because ideas such as the referendum or the abolition of social benefits for illegal immigrants strangely resemble those of Marine Le Pen. ” They try to regain their virginity by talking like us “, mocks an RN executive according to whom” voters are not fooled “.
This counter-project, finally, will at least have had the merit of bringing together all the LRs behind a unifying theme, at least for the moment, because some deputies have moderately appreciated not being associated with the initiative and would draw out their own proposals. . At the risk of torpedoing the political counter-offensive.