Against the advice of the Minister of the Interior, the deputy who chairs the Assembly’s law commission intends to submit his bill to the Renaissance group at the start of the school year.
The summer torpor is conducive to heat strokes. The executive has just paid the price. While the parliamentary session ended last week, and the members of the government went on vacation this weekend, news as political as it is controversial suddenly entered the public debate on Tuesday. In question, a proposed constitutional law discreetly tabled on Tuesday August 2 by the LREM deputy from Vienna, Sacha Houlié. According to the explanatory memorandum, the text aims to “granting the right to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal elections to foreigners who are not nationals of the European Union residing in France“. “I will present this proposal to the group (Renaissance) at the start of the school year in the perspective that they take it up“, supports the chosen one in The cross .
Problem, the measure he defends finds little resonance at the top of the state. Worse, it comes up against a dismissal directly addressed by Beauvau. According to our information, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, indeed told the person concerned that he was “firmly opposedto his project. An unambiguous position, which moreover joins that of the President of the Republic: Emmanuel Macron has never declared himself in favor of such a solution either. Two observations motivate the hostility of the Head of State on this point: the growing abstention of the French at the ballot box against which it is necessary to fight, first of all. But also the need to improveaccess to citizenshipof foreigners, or even nationality, before considering going any further.
An immigration law by the end of the year, after a parliamentary debate
For her part, the president of the macronist group in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, tells the Figaro want the creation of aworking group on immigration issues to work (this subject) together, in all its components“, in order to combine “humanism and efficiency“. Too late for Les Républicains and the Rassemblement national, who immediately went to the front to denounce a “scandal“operated”in catimini“. “I will oppose this project with all my might.“, has already warned on Twitter the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti, also a candidate for the presidency of LR. As for the current acting RN boss, Jordan Bardella, he too split a tweet to regretthe final dispossession of the French from their country“.
Recently brought back to the fore by a series of miscellaneous facts involving foreign offenders, immigration will be one of the first sensitive issues for the start of the school year. In an interview at Figaro last week, Gérald Darmanin thus announced that a major parliamentary debate would be organized in October, before a consolidated text is presented to the Council of Ministers by the end of the year. To guarantee its adoption by the two Chambers – including the Senate with a right-wing majority – the bill should be largely inspired by the recommendations of the report written by Senator LR François-Noël Buffet.
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