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During a speech on Monday, September 16, French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to remobilize his troops and asked them to make immigration one of the priorities of the second half of the quinquennium. He reinstalled his duel with Marine Le Pen in view of the next installments.
" We do not have the right not to look at it in the face ." While no news lent itself to it, Emmanuel Macron handed Monday night the subject of immigration at the center of the political debate during a speech in the garden of the Ministry of Relations with Parliament in front of the government and elected officials. the majority. " By claiming to be humanist, we are sometimes too lax, " said a head of state on the offensive, calling his troops to seize this topic not to leave it to the right.
The right to asylum in the viewfinder
" There is a particular risk of misuse of the right to asylum, said Aurore Bergé, MP Yvelines and spokeswoman for La Republique en Marche on RFI. If we want this right to be meaningful, we can not accept that France is the first country to receive applications for asylum from people coming from Albania or Georgia, for example ". Requests that are, according to her, " not legitimate ".
Other test balls have been launched in recent days, such as a revision of State Medical Assistance that provides access to care for undocumented migrants. The boss of La République en Marche, Stanislas Guerini , said that it led to "abuses". The MEA will be on the menu of a parliamentary debate - without a vote - on the theme of immigration that will take place on 30 September in the Assembly. A debate at the initiative of a government anxious to send signals on his right while the debate on the PMA for all is more perceived as a marker of the left.
" Live with that "
Emmanuel Macron urged his troops not to turn into a " bourgeois party ", blind to the concerns of the " popular classes " who " live with it [immigration]". The president does not hide it: he wants to seduce those who are tempted by the extreme right in the perspective of the next elections of the quinquennium with the focus of the presidential election.
The head of state has repeated for several weeks privately to his relatives: he is convinced that part of the vote will be played on the sovereign issues ("immigration, security, communitarianism"). In his December 10 address at the time of the crisis of yellow vests or at his press conference on April 25 , Emmanuel Macron never forgot to send signals of firmness in evoking this subject, even if was not at the heart of the concerns expressed. The president wanted to impose immigration as one of the themes of the great debate, before turning back.
Fracture lines
Emmanuel Macron must now convince his majority to follow him, which is not acquired. The president's words do not please everyone in La République en Marche. Earlier this morning, several members of the party's left wing broadcast a platform in which they insist that the debate focus primarily on improving the integration of foreigners rather than the number of expulsions.
The lines of fracture observed two years ago at the time of the debate on the asylum-immigration law defended by the former minister Gerard Collomb could resurface. Beyond the majority, the offensive of Emmanuel Macron is criticized by the opposition which denounces its "electoralist" aims. The Right and the Far Right say they wait for acts, rather than words.