PARIS, November 6 (Reuters) – The government will seek a majority from parliamentarians to pass its immigration bill, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assured Monday as the text arrives for examination in the Senate.
Asked about the possibility of using article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows a bill to be adopted without a vote by deputies, the head of the executive affirmed that “the objective is that we find a majority on this text.
“We will look for majorities. The Minister of the Interior [Gérald Darmanin] is obviously mobilized. And as I do on each of the texts, if necessary, I also get involved in helping to find majorities,” she added on France Inter.
The bill on immigration, the examination of which begins this Monday in the Senate before arriving at the end of the month before the National Assembly, arouses the opposition of elected representatives The Republicans (LR) whose favorable vote is necessary to the government which does not have an absolute majority in the Palais Bourbon.
Article 3, which provides for the regularization of undocumented immigrants in professions in tension, crystallizes the disagreements within LR elected officials who see the risk of a “draft”.
“It’s about allowing people who have been in our territory for years, who are well integrated, who have worked for years to be able to be regularized,” explained Elisabeth Borne on France Inter.
Asked about the possibility of removing this article 3 from the bill to allow the text to be adopted, Elisabeth Borne ruled out this possibility.
“It turns out that there is a need for a legislative provision because today, a person, even if they are very well integrated, even if they have been on our soil for years, even if they work, cannot not ask for its regularization itself.
“This need to allow a person to request regularization when they meet the conditions that I mentioned seems important to me,” she added.
(Written by Blandine Hénault, edited by Kate Entringer)
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