The right definitely does not intend to let this happen.
A month after the broad censorship of the Constitutional Council on the immigration bill, which the Republicans had nevertheless managed to toughen by twisting the arm of the government, the party chaired by Éric Ciotti draws out a whole series of legislative tools.
After the shared initiative referendum (RIP) launched around ten days ago, the first stage of which must still be finalized, to
“give back the voice to our compatriots on this subject”,
the president of the LR group in the Senate Bruno Retailleau considers that
“the French feel dispossessed”
on this issue.
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“They have the feeling that in the political class but also at the heart of our institutions, some are opposed to their desire for firmness,”
analyzes the elected official from Vendée this Wednesday in an interview with Paris Match.
Reason why the tenor of the right intends to
“revise our constitution.”
Because if LR's new bill, put up for debate during a future parliamentary niche, takes up the 32 articles censored by the Sages of the rue de Montpensier, it is
"indispensable but not sufficient"
.
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While the government could bring together deputies and senators in Congress on New Caledonia, Mayotte or even Corsica, to modify the 1958 text as to the rules which govern these localities, the right intends to seize the ball jump.
And to propose an
aggiornamento
of article 11 to
“be able to organize a referendum on immigration.”
For the moment, the use of this constitutional tool is strictly limited to
“reforms relating to the economic, social or environmental policy of the nation and to the public services which contribute to it.”
A reform on which the Vendéen hopes for a vote of three-fifths of parliamentarians in Versailles, a necessary step to change the Constitution.
“It will be a litmus test.”
A kick in the anthill all the more powerful since
“part of the political class does not want to resort to a referendum (on immigration), for fear that the people will “vote wrong”
,” continues Retailleau
.
Way for the Republicans, mistreated recently by the majority, to put themselves back at the center of the game.
“We see that Emmanuel Macron is not on the right,” mocks Senator LR.
The progressive President of the Republic considers that immigration is an opportunity for France.
We consider (that) immigration is not an opportunity.
Neither for the French nor for the immigrants.”
Also a way of differentiating itself from the RN's proposals on this issue, of which the left and the macronie are no longer able to distinguish themselves from those of the right:
“Populists prosper thanks to migratory disorder.”