The most optimistic want to believe in a possible convergence between the government and the right. This prospect may seem illusory in view of the hardening debate on the issue.

After much back and forth on the method and timetable, the executive confirmed its desire for a "balanced" text including the creation of an additional residence permit for so-called "tension" professions. And with its proposal to amend the constitution in order to restore the primacy of national law over European law, LR is attacking one of the fundamentals of Macronism.