Emmanuel Macron called on Friday for an “intelligent compromise” on the immigration law “in the service of the general interest”, specifying that he would draw “the consequences” of the result of the current negotiations with the right-wing opposition in Parliament.
“I am for results and pragmatism”
“It would not be serious to deal with a text sensitive to 49.3 when the oppositions have done everything to ensure that there is no debate,” said the Head of State from Brussels in reference to the article in the Constitution allowing a bill to be imposed without a vote, which he used for pensions, but excluded for immigration. The government suffered a heavy setback in the National Assembly on Monday when the coalition oppositions rejected the examination of its text on immigration even before the start of the debates. Emmanuel Macron has decided to rely on a joint joint commission which will bring together deputies and senators from all sides on Monday to try to find a compromise, on the basis of the text adopted at first reading by the Senate, which clearly hardened.
“I am for the result and pragmatism,” said the president, without going into detail about his preferences with a view to the tight negotiations underway with the Les Républicains party, against a backdrop of tensions within the Macronist camp itself. . “Our country needs to improve its rules to better fight against illegal immigration, traffickers, against those who take advantage of the world’s misery and who weaken our system by putting too much pressure on it.”
He also publicly excoriated, as he had already done in front of his troops, “the immense responsibility that two historical forces of government have taken on – I say historical because they have decided to no longer be so” in particular “by choosing to vote with La France insoumise and the National Rally”. He targeted the Republicans and the Socialist Party. “It was a game of obstruction and refusal of dialogue that the French cannot understand. I don’t understand either. Because we can agree or disagree, but I find that it’s weird not to dialogue,” insisted Emmanuel Macron.
Asked about the responsibility of his Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and his Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, he noted that the latter had “never spared his efforts” and that the head of government had “knew how to initiate discussions with his majority, but also with the opposition forces who were ready to return to find dialogue and compromise.”