Toughened by the Senate, which is due to adopt it on Tuesday in a solemn vote, will the immigration bill be "softened" by the deputies? Gérald Darmanin "welcomed" the agreement reached in the Upper Chamber, but this shift to the right of the text embarrasses a large part of the parliamentarians in his camp.
In the Assembly, where this version is due to be debated on 27 November in the Law Committee, then from 11 December in the Chamber, the left wing of the Macronist coalition is preparing to restore the section on regularisations. In particular, its highly controversial Article 3, which was deleted in favour of a new restrictive article. "We will restore the ambitious text of the executive, the entire text of the executive," warned Renaissance MP Sacha Houlié, chairman of the law commission, in Le Figaro on Wednesday.
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For Gérald Darmanin, a new tug-of-war is looming at the Palais Bourbon. A return of the "social component" of the initial bill, which provides for the regularization of undocumented workers...
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