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President Macron no longer wants to leave the field open to the National Gathering on the theme of immigration. Ludovic Marin / Pool via REUTERS

At 15 days of a debate on immigration to the Assembly, Emmanuel Macron displays his firmness on migration policy to avoid being " a bourgeois party " that ignores the opinion of popular classes seduced by the far right.

Emmanuel Macron invited himself this Monday to the pot of return of deputies and senators of the Republic in March and allied parties. " We do not have the right not to face immigration in the face, " he said. The head of state is ready to reform the right of asylum because, he says, the system is " diverted by networks ", with the key of more and more isolated minors. The modalities of State Medical Assistance could also be reviewed.

" What he asked us in a very clear way, is to face the subjects, to face them without any naivety, while continuing to look at them with humanism, explains the LaREM MP Aurore Bergé . It is this line of crest which is not always easy to hold but which is essential if one does not want to be gentrified, that is to say to be no more in contact with the French ".

To weaken the National Gathering

The other goal of this offensive on the sensitive terrain of immigration is to try to weaken the National Gathering. For Emmanuel Macron, the party of Marine Le Pen is besides the only opponent of En Marche.

" The opposition in the public opinion is that of the National Gathering is that of withdrawal, when we must rather be ambitious, " says Senator Walker Francois Patriat.

This debate on immigration is not unanimous among MPs LaREM, especially for the left wing of Macronie. " It's more than coughing " internally, says one of them. " Running after the far right, it does not work anymore. We talked about ecology in the Europeans and it's Europe Ecology-The Greens who took the points ", analyzes this MP En Marche.