"This text never ceases to be programmed, deprogrammed and then reprogrammed!" he was annoyed, repeating his conviction that "immigration is the blind spot of Macronism" because "we cannot want to expel more illegal immigrants and regularize more illegals".
Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday asked Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin to relaunch "consultations" to present "in July" a draft law on immigration to the Council of Ministers, for a parliamentary examination in the autumn.
Mr. Retailleau also specified the schedule of the two texts that The Republicans intend to present on the subject, and which will be tabled "within a fortnight".
"We want firmness at all levels, to restrict the conditions of family immigration, to expel all foreign offenders, to demand that asylum applications be filed outside, but also to regain our legal sovereignty," he said.
While LR was deeply divided during the pension reform, Mr. Retailleau also considered that the president of the party Eric Ciotti "will have to decide" on the case of the deputy Aurélien Pradié, at the forefront of the slingshot, and his possible exclusion from the group or even the party.
"When you are numerically weak, you have to be ideologically strong," he said, deeming it unacceptable "that on each subject, some systematically take the opposite view for their personal glory."
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