Laura Laplaud
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9:19 a.m., December 21, 2023
24 hours after the adoption by Parliament of the immigration bill, Emmanuel Macron was the guest of C to you on France 5 Wednesday evening. The head of state vigorously defended this text as “a shield that we lacked”. For Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France, it is a “very good text, a text of firmness, justice and necessary to protect the French” .
“It’s an essential text”
“Today, in France, you have a certain number of foreigners who are in an irregular situation and who we cannot get to leave the territory. This text will make it possible to accelerate the execution of the obligations to leave the country. French territory (OQTF). You have people who have been convicted of crimes, for offenses that you cannot expel. You will be able to expel them. You have a multitude of recourses which prevent a person from leaving the territory who is undesirable on our territory. From now on, with this text, she will be able and she will have to leave the territory. It is a text for the protection of the French, essential”, he listed on the microphone of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews THURSDAY.
“The only political group that stands together is the majority”
However, the adopted text causes turmoil within the executive. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, Bruno Le Maire defends himself from any nervous breakdown within the majority. “The only political group that stands together, that stands firm, whether on pension reform, on unemployment insurance reform, on all these difficult texts and on immigration, is the majority,” said he said, paying tribute to the deputies who united behind Gérald Darmanin, Élisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron.
“The overall balance of the text is a message of firmness”
Deemed too right-wing, dubbed by the National Rally, the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau resigned on Wednesday. For his part, the Minister of the Economy says he supports this text “100%”. “We could talk about provisions on the acquisition of nationality. It seems natural to me when you are a child, born in France to two foreign parents, to demonstrate your desire to join the French nation,” he continued. , recognizing that certain provisions, such as that of the deposit for foreign students, appear “less necessary”. But “the overall balance of the text is a message of firmness and a message of justice. It seems good to me and it must be preserved,” he concluded.
By the admission of Gérald Darmanin himself, part of this law, toughened compared to its initial version, could be challenged by the Constitutional Council, seized by the Head of State on Wednesday.