Yanis Darras
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9:10 a.m., January 26, 2024
Maud Bregeon, Renaissance MP for Hauts-de-Seine, was the guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews this Friday. At the microphone of Romain Desarbres, the majority deputy returned to the decision of the Constitutional Council to censor 32 articles of the immigration bill and considers LR’s criticism of the Sages’ decision unworthy.
The Sages have spoken. This Thursday, the Constitutional Council studied at length the immigration bill adopted by Parliament a few weeks ago. Of the 86 articles present in the final text, 32 were censored and three others were partially censored, or nearly 40% of the text.
Censorship risk warning
“We must understand why the Constitutional Council censored part of this law. It censored it not for questions of substance, but for questions of form”, explained this Friday at the microphone of Europe 1, Maud Bregeon.
“I will tell you, we can discuss and re-discuss the relevance of their measures. I just regret, as a parliamentarian, despite our numerous warnings of the risk of censorship, that they nevertheless wanted to keep them within the text and that they behaved like blackmailers on certain points, to force the vote on a text whose constitutionality we had strong doubts”, she gets annoyed, adding that the Prime Minister of the At the time, Élisabeth Borne, as well as Gérald Darmanin, alerted the Republicans.
It is not a government of judges
“I have another regret,” however, specifies the MP for Hauts-de-Seine. “It’s to hear a party that calls itself the government castigating an institution as important as the Constitutional Council. I think it’s not up to par. High-quality women and men who come from the left, who come from the right, sit on the Constitutional Council. This is the case of Laurent Fabius or even Alain Juppé”, lists Maud Bregeon. “But it is not a government of judges. The Constitutional Council does not play politics, contrary to what I have heard here and there,” she concludes.
From now on, the Republicans and the National Rally are calling for an overhaul of the Constitutional Council as well as a referendum on immigration, in the face of the failure of their proposals in the immigration bill.