The version of the bill on immigration adopted by the Senate “generally suits” the Horizons deputies, who would oppose a reintroduction by the National Assembly of the initial provisions on the regularization of undocumented workers, indicated Wednesday their chef Laurent Marcangeli.
We have an imperfect text, perhaps a little heavy, but which goes in the right direction and which is a first response to the search for a parliamentary compromise, the president of the Horizons group, an ally of the presidential majority, judged before the press .
Overall, the text resulting from the work of the Senate suits the deputies of Edouard Philippe’s party, he said, insisting on his wish that the bill be adopted following a vote and not an appeal. Article 49.3 of the Constitution.
While the left wing of the presidential camp in the National Assembly pleads for the reestablishment of a measure on regularizations in professions in tension suppressed by the senators, Laurent Marcangeli said he was hostile to it.
We do not want the reintroduction of article 3 as it existed before the passage to the Senate, he indicated, because it included something that posed a problem to us: the enforceable right to regularization.
The Senate deleted the famous article 3 and introduced a new, more restrictive article. It provides that undocumented workers working in shortage occupations will be able to obtain a one-year residence permit exceptionally and not automatically, via a procedure carried out by the prefects and accompanied by multiple conditions.
This writing is better than that of article 3, according to Mr. Marcangeli. We will be attached to the fact, if there is a rewrite (the National Assembly), that it is quite close to that of the Senate.
Would he go so far as to vote against a rewrite that is too close to the initial provision? I think I wouldn’t vote for it and I don’t really like abstaining and I think I can speak on behalf of my group, he replied.
Concerning State Medical Aid (AME), abolished in the Senate in favor of emergency medical aid, the boss of the Horizons deputies judges that this debate has no place in this text.
And this even if the vast majority of his group wants a revision of the AME, in particular by revising certain award criteria.
Deputies must begin examining the bill in committee on November 27, before it arrives in the chamber the week of December 11.