Even if it is not “perfect,” Darmanin said, “we are happy that we have this text to protect the French.” The Left, in turn, has not spared the qualifications to criticize this text, which it calls xenophobic.
The government of Emmanuel Macron and the French right announced this Tuesday that they have reached an agreement on the immigration law, which in a hardened version of the text will be voted on in the National Assembly this evening.
Even if it is not “perfect”, the Home Secretary has stated: Gerald DarmaninIn statements to the press after the agreement was reached, “we are happy to have this text to protect the French.”
The Left, in turn, has not spared the qualifications to criticize this text, which it calls xenophobic. “We are in a terrifying moment,” he said. Olivier Faurefirst secretary of Socialist Party French, while Mathilde Panotleader of the bloc of deputies of Rebellious France (LFI)considers it the “hardest” text on immigration in history.
The agreement was reached in a joint parliamentary committee (seven members of the General Assembly and an equal number of members of the Senate), a body that the executive branch joined after the House of Representatives last week refused to debate another version of the text that left found it too harsh and the right too lenient.
Support from the LR and the extreme right
With this scenario, the ruling party, which since 2022 does not have an absolute majority to implement initiatives alone, returned to the most conservative version of the project that had emerged from the Senate (with a conservative majority) and sought an agreement with Los Republicans (LR).
The two sides had clashed for a week over issues such as the delay in access to social assistance for people in forced transit or medical assistance for undocumented migrants, which will eventually be reformed independently of this law.
The president of the LR, a conservative party, Eric Ciotti He has argued that the French social model needs to be made less ‘attractive’ because France cannot assimilate as many foreigners.
Extreme right led by Marine Le Pen He has also immediately come out to claim an “ideological victory” because, as he has said, this project has somehow codified his principle of “national preference” into law. Le Pen has announced that her bloc will vote in favor of the project in the General Assembly.
Source: EITB
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