Referendum on immigration for Les Républicains, questioning of the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968 by former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe… The subject of migration is making a strong comeback in the news. While the government wants to introduce a bill on this subject in July, the right-wing parties are multiplying the proposals.
Ideas that surprise
“There is an alignment with our historical positions which is quite impressive,” laughs RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy. “There are the LRs of course, Edouard Philippe too. That one, I admit, I hadn’t seen it coming. He questions the agreements with Algeria. Obviously, he never called into question. cause when he was Prime Minister”, he regrets at the microphone of Europe 1.
“A year ago, when Marine Madame Marine Le Pen made her proposals, she was qualified by Mr. Larcher, President of the Senate, to want to question the Constitution, the rule of law, that it was impossible to denounce the “agreement with Algeria. And now, everything that was impossible in the electoral campaign to discredit Marine Le Pen becomes possible to win the hearts of voters”, continues the deputy of the Somme.
“Hypocrites”
But if the ideas are shared, there is no question of favoring an alliance with the Republicans. “They are hypocrites”, judges the elected member of the National Rally at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk. “That is to say that in the end, Les Républicains speak like us, act like us, but always save the head of Mr. Macron who wants to bring in a record number of legal and unfortunately illegal immigrants. So that’s always the same with LR”, he regrets.
The government would like, thanks to its bill, to be able to regularize undocumented workers to fight against the labor shortage. An aberration for the National Rally, which judges “that the legalized illegal immigrants, if I may say so, will be replaced by other illegal immigrants”, concludes Jean-Philippe Tanguy.