Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Laura Laplaud / Photo credit: XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 06:50, May 28, 2023

His response had been expected for a week. Gérald Darmanin answers this Sunday morning in the columns of the "Parisian" to the Republicans (LR), authors of two bills to fight against immigration. The Minister of the Interior says he is ready to join LR on a number of measures, but closes the door to others, including the exit from the European treaties.

In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche last week, Les Républicains (LR) drew their plan to fight immigration. With their two texts on the subject, LR imposed a form of ultimatum on the government. "Let's work together," replies Gérald Darmanin to the Republicans, in the columns of the Parisian. The Minister of the Interior says he is ready to follow LR on certain measures.

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"Everyone must take a step towards the other," summarizes Gérald Darmanin, who joins LR on several points: the conditioning of visas to the issuance of consular laissez-passer, restrictions on state medical aid or the establishment of quotas voted in Parliament for labor immigration. Convergences, therefore, but also reservations, as on the request of the Republicans to make asylum applications from the consulates of the countries of origin. An inapplicable measure, slices Gérald Darmanin. "Even Denmark doesn't," he adds.

Darmanin sceptical about certain measures

The tenant of Beauvau is also more than skeptical, without closing the door, on the exit of the European treaties on migration. "The amendment of the Constitution is the responsibility of the President of the Republic and the sovereign people," he said. "We must ask ourselves the question of the effectiveness of such a measure," he adds. Britain, which has left the European Union, for example, has never had so many immigrants on its soil.

Gérald Darmanin, who affirms, multiply contacts in order to find an agreement. A balancing act to convince the right without losing the left wing of its majority. The minister is considering a discussion on a text in the Senate in October, then in November or December in the National Assembly.