Jacques Serais / Photo credits: Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP
The immigration bill was adopted this Tuesday, December 19. A painful birth and a version much more to the right than initially planned. The presidential majority emerges from this sequence all the more fractured as the National Rally supported this text. A spectacle observed by Emmanuel Macron.
With 349 votes for and 186 against, the National Assembly adopted the immigration bill on Tuesday, a few hours after the green light from the Senate. A victorious epilogue for the majority, but not without political consequences. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, takes a harsh look at the oppositions, but also at his own government. “He judges that they took it like a joke,” says one of his close friends to Europe 1 without filter.
“The President finds him bad”
“They were wrong in all their calculations, in all their forecasts,” said the head of state, according to reported comments. “The President finds that Elisabeth Borne has understood nothing about the political balance of power,” continues another evening visitor. A bitter assessment, a year and a half after his appointment to Matignon. Today, the Prime Minister is more threatened than ever, but she is not the only one to be the subject of Elysee criticism.
Sylvain Maillard, the head of the Renaissance group in the Assembly, also has ringing ears. “The President finds him bad,” says an advisor without blinking. As for the six ministers who threatened to resign – Aurélien Rousseau for Health and Patrice Vergriete for Housing – a strategist ultimately sees this as a godsend. The large-scale reshuffle prepared for mid-January would be necessary in fact, without even having to pronounce it.