Olivier Dussopt and Gérald Darmanin at the Élysée, February 1, 2022. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
At the end of the presentation of the text in the Council of Ministers, the tenant of Beauvau said he was “certain” to succeed in having it adopted.
The hand remains outstretched. While the executive bill on immigration was presented this Wednesday morning in the Council of Ministers, Gérald Darmanin said to himself “certain“that the government will manage to”a compromise without distorting the text“. A favorable outcome that he intends to achieve “by obviously listening to the oppositions, and particularly the right-wing oppositions“, he sketched. In accordance with the line he had already defended at the end of last December in Le Figaro claiming that the text responds to “everything LR always asked forin migration matters.
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The bill, which will first be examined in the Senate – with a majority on the right – before arriving in the Assembly, has already received a very clear dismissal from the Republicans. First by the voice of the new president of the party, Éric Ciotti, who announced it in an interview with Le Figaro, then by that of the boss of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, again this Wednesday morning. In particular, the provision consisting in introducing a residence permit for illegal workers in shortage occupations.
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