Emmanuel Macron defends his controversial proposal to revise the Constitution to remove land rights in Mayotte, because it is necessary to
“break the migratory phenomenon”
on the island
“at the risk of a collapse of public services”
.
“It is legitimate to ask this question, because the Mahorais are suffering.
They also welcomed this proposal very positively, whatever their political sensitivities.
We must stop
the migratory phenomenon in Mayotte
, at the risk of a collapse of public services on the island
,” he pleads in an interview with
Humanité
published Sunday evening.
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Migration phenomenon
Mayotte is a French department in the heart of the very poor Comoros archipelago.
“Families travel there and arrive in France, via Mayotte, where they have access to services completely uncorrelated with the socio-economic reality of the archipelago
,” he judges.
“Mayotte is the first maternity ward in France, with women who come to give birth there to have little French children.
Objectively, we must be able to respond to this situation
,” he says.
“Added to this is a new phenomenon in recent months, given the security difficulties in the Great Lakes region: a massive arrival of people from Tanzania and other countries
,” he explains.
To
“break this
migratory phenomenon
”
, Macron also wants to
“restrict access to social rights for people in an irregular situation”
.
But the president assures that
“restricting land rights for Mayotte does not mean doing it for the rest of the country”
, as the right and the extreme right are demanding.
“I remain very deeply attached to this right for France
,” he assures.
According to him, this proposal to revise the Constitution
“is not an attack on the indivisible Republic because the Constitution also recognizes it as plural and decentralized”
.
“We can adapt the Basic Law to overseas territories: we did it for French Polynesia, for New Caledonia
,” he underlines.