The Renaissance and Republican (LR) deputies are negotiating. The left is watching. And the National Rally is jubilant. "The RN's ideological victory is getting stronger every day. We have moved from the rejection of a lax text to a tougher text on the conditions for granting social assistance to foreigners, "welcomed the president of the party on France Inter on Tuesday.
However, the MEP does not give a blank cheque to the text that should emerge from the joint committee (CMP). Composed of deputies and senators, the latter was suspended on Monday evening, immediately after starting and will resume this Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. In particular, the members of this CMP stumbled over the controversial issue of social benefits paid to foreigners.
'National priority' for social assistance
The president of the National Rally, for his part, is clear. "We are in favour of the national priority (...)Social assistance must be reserved for people who have French nationality."
"The regularisation of illegal workers", the RN's red line
"The RN's red line is the regularisation of illegal workers. If this measure disappears (...) like those aimed at facilitating the regularisation of illegal immigrants, we will vote for the text," said Jordan Bardella. Otherwise, we will abstain or vote against."
He added: "There are still blind spots in the text. There is nothing on the right of the soil, nothing on foreign minors or on border control."