Immigration: the government finally wants a bill in July

This is another turnaround for the immigration bill. This Tuesday, Le Figaro reveals that Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne would like to present the immigration bill in July.

This desire was expressed at a meeting in Matignon. Elisabeth Borne asked the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, in connection with Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labour and Franck Riester, Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament, to conduct in the coming weeks "consultations to propose a strategy to adopt effective measures and that can rally the presidential majority", according to the entourage of the Prime Minister.

However, the head of government said in April that there was "no majority to vote for such a text" and decided to postpone its presentation to the Council of Ministers until the autumn. The Prime Minister also considered that it was "not the time to launch a debate on a subject that could divide the country".

One of the priorities of the "hundred days"

"These consultations will last one month. The goal is to present a bill in July so that measures can be examined in Parliament in the fall," according to a source in Matignon.

The Minister of the Interior had already presented a text, and its examination was initially scheduled for the end of March in the Senate. But President Emmanuel Macron had first announced his postponement and assured that it would be divided into several texts, before going back on these remarks by pleading for a great law in "a single text", "effective and fair".

In mid-April, in front of his troops gathered at the Elysee, the head of state had even made it one of the priorities of the "hundred days" he decreed to relaunch his five-year term. "If we do not do immigration and work" before July 14, he had hammered according to participants, "it means that we will not do it" at all. But its Prime Minister had recorded the political deadlock in the following days.