Paris (AFP)
The spokesperson of LREM Aurore Bergé defended Tuesday, in the wake of Emmanuel Macron, a line of "firmness", but "with humanism", on immigration, warning against "a risk of misuse of the right to 'asylum".
Fifteen days before the parliamentary debate on immigration scheduled for September 30 and October 2, she also opened the door on RFI to a revision of the offer of care supported by state medical aid (AME).
Before some 200 deputies and senators of LREM, Modem and allied parties, as well as the entire government, the head of state said Monday night at its majority that it was necessary to look at the subject of immigration "in front "and not be" a bourgeois party "because it is the" working class "that live with it and migrated to the far right.
"If we want the right of asylum to be meaningful, we can not accept that it is misguided and that France is the first country receiving asylum applications with people coming from Albania, for example. or from Georgia, we can see that we are not in a characteristic and legitimate asylum request ", insisted the Yvelines MP.
"We must absolutely confront this subject because if we do not do it, we will leave it to others who will not take it in the same way," she warned, stating: "The National Gathering binds immediately this topic (of immigration) to the questions of terrorism, to questions of security, that is absolutely not our subject ".
While stressing that "state medical aid is a protection for the French in relation to health risks," she said that "if we want national solidarity to play, that is to say that the French agree to continue to pay (...) it may be necessary to review the offer of care to be sure that it is really the health risks, the serious and immediate topics, which are taken care of ".
The AME, which represents a budget of some 943 million euros and concerns more than 300,000 people, allows foreigners in an irregular situation and residing in France for more than three months to benefit from access to healthcare.
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