Gérard Larcher (LR) wants to examine the entire text. The immigration bill, whose examination in the Senate with a right-wing majority has been postponed, is an “indispensable” text which cannot be “sliced up”, declared Thursday the President of the Senate on LCI.
The conference of presidents of the Senate on Wednesday evening recorded the withdrawal from the agenda of this controversial text, carried by the Ministers of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and Labor Olivier Dussopt. Adopted last week in committee, it was to be examined at first reading in the hemicycle from next Tuesday. The Conference of Presidents “was very clear”, said Gérard Larcher: it “agrees” for the text to be removed from the agenda, but its examination “can only be postponed”.
“A migration policy is a whole”
In a letter to Gérard Larcher on Wednesday, of which AFP received a copy, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne explains this withdrawal to “be able to build with the two assemblies, the best method in order to move forward as quickly as possible on these major questions, without putting calls into question the strong ambitions of this text both in terms of immigration control and in the field of integration”.
“There is no question for the Conference of Presidents of a text that is sliced up as was mentioned by the President of the Republic”, continued Gérard Larcher. The head of state announced on Wednesday that the bill, which satisfies neither the right nor the left, would be cut into “several texts”. But for the President of the Senate, “a migration policy is a whole”.
“It is a text, like pensions, essential, which must be debated on the merits and which must provide answers”, he underlined. “Going to slalom is undoubtedly an interesting exercise for skiers, but I think that in politics you need consistency, courage,” he said.