Republican President Annie Genevard warned that her party was “notnot at all ready to compromiseon the immigration bill that the government intends to present in early 2023.
“If there is a text on which we are not ready to compromise, it is this one. We will be very demanding“, told AFP the president of LR, pretending to wonder: “Why are all countries adopting ever more restrictive legislation?»
“Massive regulatory operation”
She was particularly concerned about the government’s desire to create a residence permit “job in tension“because, according to her, “all professions are in tension today.
“We are dealing with a massive regularization operation», she claimed, picking up on a recurring argument on the right, and worrying about a repeat of the 1970s “where the industry was in massive need of foreign labor“.
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“I hear that business leaders need manpower but after the problems, the requests for housing, services, we can’t do it anymore, we can’t integrate anymore», and “we cannot have a single economic and accounting point of view on these issues“, she said.
The bill should be accompanied by a tightening of the screws on evictions but, for Ms. Genevard, “we will have to see” because “if we don’t have strong measures, the situation is out of control“. “We lost our sovereignty», she added, lamenting that “European courts defeat French judges“.
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LR as the expression of the political choice of the right-wing people
While Les Républicains must elect their next president at the beginning of December, Annie Genevard estimated that “the main issueof the party would be toensure that the right-wing people – who, we are told, are the majority in the country – identify LR as the expression of their political choice“.
While the three candidates – Éric Ciotti, Bruno Retailleau and Aurélien Pradié – promise renovation or rupture, Ms. Genevard estimated that “there are signals to be given of a change», notably “in the inner workings“. “But the name change will not be enough to renovate and rebuild the party», she assured, while Bruno Retailleau believes that “the brand is dead“.