Bruno Retailleau said Tuesday on France Inter "ready for dialogue" with the government about the thorny future immigration law. "My door is open and he told me that he wanted to see me in the coming days, I will receive him," replied the senator of Vendée to the minister who once again reached out to the Republicans during an interview in Le Parisien on Saturday.
The boss of the LR senators, however, specifies that this dialogue is only possible on "one condition, it is that we stop deceiving the French, it is that we do not make the 22nd law in a little more than 20 years which would serve no purpose at all". Bruno Retailleau "expects the government to table its proposals" and "observes a deep division of the majority" on the subject.
Quarrel over trades in tension
In addition to "efficiency", he sets another "red line" about the regularization of undocumented workers in trades in tension which would constitute according to him "a new suction pump". "This point is totally unacceptable," said for his part on RTL the boss of the deputies LR Olivier Marleix, who does not want a "law that opens a little more the floodgates".
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"We will not be in the haggling, it is a matter of conviction, he insisted. " In terms of immigration, we must put everything back on the table, it is not the little tinkering or the little haggling that Mr. Darmanin proposes to us that will answer it. "
Government outstretched hand
", let's work together!" said Gérald Darmanin after the Republicans' very firm bills on immigration, one of which provides for the possibility of derogating from the treaties and European law on immigration. Freeing oneself from the European treaties would be "a migratory Frexit", insists the minister.
"We don't want to leave Europe. We do not want a certain amount of case law to come out of the treaties," replied Bruno Retailleau. "In a democracy, the people cannot do everything against the law. But conversely, the law cannot do everything against the people," he added, warning against the "government of judges", referring back to back two pitfalls, "the Orban pitfall, which is the temptation of illiberal democracy" and that of "anti-democratic liberalism".