The highly flammable text on immigration arrived in the Senate in a few days when, that morning, Hervé Marseille pondered the death that could be caused by the fall of a flowerpot swept by the wind of Storm Ciaran. "It's stupid as a death, after all," the senator jokes with his trademark bonhomie. Always a good word, an image, a sometimes original thought, whatever the political context. "You have to have a good laugh in all this shit." The "shit", explains the president of the Centrist Union group, has its origins in the "red line" drawn up by Les Républicains and the "totem" defended by Renaissance: Article 3 of the bill which provides for the regularisation of illegal immigrants for jobs in short supply. A disagreement that could not be resolved in the Law Commission and which ended up leading to a "passionate conflagration". "For symmetrically opposite reasons, each side has raised the mayonnaise," Marseille said. There was no...
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