Louis de Raguenel 5:43 p.m., August 30, 2021
Traveling to Mayotte and accompanied by Gérald Darmanin, Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas Territories, announced Monday a series of measures supposed to fight against immigration in this territory where the subject is extremely sensitive.
One way to respond to recurring criticism from the right on this subject.
Since July, whether it is Michel Barnier, Valérie Pécresse, Xavier Bertrand or Eric Ciotti, the right has not stopped attacking Emmanuel Macron on what they consider a failure of his migration policy. On the executive side, the response is being organized, far from Paris but still in France. And more precisely in Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean, where the Head of State sent two strong ministers, from the right, Sébastien Lecornu and Gérald Darmanin, to make a series of announcements on Monday that could be perceived as a big blow of bar to the right.
As Europe 1 reveals, these are very political announcements.
This first involves tightening up the conditions for obtaining a residence permit for a parent of a French child.
In the future, it will be necessary to prove that he has really taken care of the child for three years and not for two years as is the case today.
Hardening of soil law
Then, on the very sensitive subject of land rights, the government wants to tighten the screw, three years after a first hardening. Since 2018, land rights in Mayotte have been limited: a child born on Mayotte soil does not automatically have a French identity card. At least one of his parents must have been in a regular situation for three months. Sébastien Lecornu has just reduced this period from three months to one year, with one objective: to limit the arrival in Mayotte of pregnant Comorian women, in the weeks preceding their childbirth. At present, with 30 births per day, Mayotte is the first maternity hospital in France.
These two measures, arbitrated last Thursday by Jean Castex, can only be applied if the Mayotte bill is passed.
This will be put to the vote of parliamentarians, but after the presidential election of 2022.
A file common to town halls created
Finally, still to fight against fraud, the Minister announced the creation of a file common to all municipalities.
The ambition of the executive is that the same application for a residence permit can no longer be filed in several town halls at the same time.
According to information from Europe 1, the last measure still under study concerns the creation of a system of interconnection between the registers of birth certificates of town halls and the register of acknowledgments of paternity.