Provided that it passes the obstacle of the Joint Joint Commission, the immigration bill, which suffered a setback on Monday in the Assembly, will be submitted to a final vote in Parliament on Tuesday. At the same time, Bruno Le Maire called on the government on Wednesday to “take back the version” of the immigration bill from the Senate.
The immigration bill will be submitted to a final vote in Parliament on Tuesday if it passes the obstacle of the Joint Joint Commission the day before, AFP learned Wednesday from the Ministry of Relations with Parliament. In the event of agreement between deputies and senators on a version of the text Monday evening, a final vote would be organized Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Senate, then later in the afternoon in the National Assembly, after the traditional question session in government.
Bruno Le Maire asks LR for “leniency”
At the same time, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire called on the government on Wednesday to “retake the version” of the immigration bill from the Senate, where the right had considerably toughened the text, while asking LR to “leniency” in negotiations. “What is the only way today for such a law to pass? It is to take the Senate version,” he said to the Figarowhile the executive and the right seek a compromise.
Bruno Le Maire, however, said he hoped that “the LRs understand that we must move the lines on two sensitive points for our majority: AME (state medical aid, editor’s note) and the conditions of access to social assistance” for foreigners, two points which had been restricted by the senatorial right.