“For
three years, they did nothing.
While Macron announced a great speech on secularism in 2018. It took him two years to prepare the speech, so how long to prepare the law? ”,
Asked Christian Jacob, interviewed Monday on the set of“ Talk Le Figaro".
"The reality is that we must raise the debate on immigration,"
pleaded the President of the Republicans.
Denouncing a
“lack of control”
and the urgent need to review
“retaliatory, expulsion and sanction measures”
, he deplores that these subjects do not appear in the text of the law presented by the executive.
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Faced with the government's strategy, the former minister therefore seems dubious:
"I recall that at the beginning, it was a law against radical Islamism, later it became a law against separatism and now we are being told about a law on secularism. ”
For him, we must take the problem at the root.
"The law, we can make it evolve"
, insists the deputy of Seine-et-Marne.
The right wants to act, and quickly
Assuring that, since 2015, LR has constantly made proposals made by, among others, Eric Ciotti and Olivier Marleix, which
“have never been taken up”
, he criticizes the inaction of the executive on various subjects such as unaccompanied minors (40,000 per year), the
“explosion”
of residence permits (275,000 per year), the increase in asylum requests and the closure of places of worship.
"If, for 48 hours, it has become possible, it was not last week"
, denounces the boss of the Republicans.
"We must exert pressure and force the government to pose the issues and provide answers," he
adds.
If history painfully repeats itself, the recent assassination of Samuel Paty could, like an electric shock, move the political class.
The right, she wants to act, and quickly.
LR proposes a referendum of shared initiative led by Olivier Marleix including, among other subjects, the possibilities of expulsion for foreigners in an irregular situation.
"We will not avoid the modification of the Constitution"
, judges Christian Jacob, who also wishes to change the legal framework of social networks.
However, the process is long and tedious, since 185 parliamentarians must make the request and 4.7 million French people must sign the petition.
The simplest method, Jacob concludes, would be for "
the executive to put this law
" on the parliamentary agenda.
