Immigration: you have to look at the subject "in front" says Macron

Paris (AFP)

Emmanuel Macron said Monday night when he was in his majority that he had to look at the subject of immigration "in the face" and not be "a bourgeois party" because it is the working classes "who live with" and have migrated to far right.

"This is a subject in itself that must be taken with maturity and calm.France has always been a land of immigration," said, according to participants, the president in front of some 200 parliamentarians and members of his majority, fifteen days before the parliamentary debate on immigration scheduled for September 30 and October 2.

"We have no right not to look at this subject in the face." "The question is whether we want to be a bourgeois party or not.The bourgeois have no problem with that: they do not cross it.The popular classes live with," he said.

"The left has not wanted to look at this problem for decades, so the working classes have migrated to the extreme right, like the three little monkeys: we do not want to watch," he added.

"You have only one opponent in the field: it's the National Front (now National Rally, ed)." We have to confirm this opposition because it was the French who chose it.There are two projects: fall back, scare everything or build an open but not naive solution, "he concluded.

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