The deputies of the Les Républicains group “unanimously” adopted a motion affirming their refusal to vote on a text on immigration which would be modified compared to that adopted by the right-wing senatorial majority.
The deputies of the Les Républicains group approved on Tuesday “unanimously” a motion which affirms their refusal to support a text on immigration which would be “degraded” compared to that adopted by the right-wing senatorial majority, indicated their president Olivier Marleix. “To make things very clear, I wanted to have the group vote this morning (Tuesday) (…) the expression of a very firm position,” the boss of the LR group told the press, in reaction to the column published Sunday by 17 of its deputies who said they were ready to vote for the text as long as it remained close to the version adopted by the Senate on November 14.
A position favorably received by the presidential majority who saw it as proof of the divisions on this text within the right, while the leaders of LR brandish the threat of a motion of censure if their conditions are not accepted. According to Mr. Marleix, the motion approved “unanimously and by show of hands” during the group meeting, reaffirms the refusal of LR deputies of “any degradation of the immigration bill, as toughened by the Senate”.
“We will not vote for a text that will be rewritten”
“They reject, in particular, any law (…) which would lead to massive regularizations” and reiterate their call for a modification of the Constitution to give the State the capacity to reduce immigration. MP Véronique Louwagie, signatory of the platform, agreed in the same vein: “We will not vote for a text which will be rewritten in relation to that proposed by the Senate”, she assured during the same press briefing, pointing out the contradictions within Macronie itself.
“The senators of the presidential majority voted for the Senate text,” she recalled, assuring that it would be up to the presidential majority and the government to take responsibility for a failure by “explaining their renunciations and the lack of coherence between the two chambers”. Ms. Louwagie considered that the main objective of the forum was to recall “the catastrophic situation of current migration policy” and to highlight “the work carried out by the Senate”.