Europe 1 with AFP 14:52 p.m., October 29, 2023

Marine Le Pen does not rule out voting in favour of the immigration bill, only if her article on the regularisation of undocumented migrants is deleted. The RN leader also said that this would not solve "the problem of illegal immigration".

Marine Le Pen did not rule out on Sunday that her group would vote in favour of the immigration bill if its article on regularisations of undocumented migrants is deleted, while judging that it will not solve "the problem of illegal immigration". "A small law with small measures that improve the situation a little bit, we can vote for it," explained the leader of the RN deputies, in the program "Sunday in politics" on France 3.

"Our government is totally incapable of managing illegal immigration," Le Pen said

"There are a few measures that improve the procedures a bit," she said, answering in the affirmative the question of whether the possible withdrawal of Article 3 of the bill could allow her group to vote in favour of the text. This is the article most contested by the right and the far right, which should make it possible to regularize undocumented foreigners working in jobs in short supply.

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"But it's not going to upset our total inability to manage immigration," Le Pen said of the government's text. In the event of a favourable vote, "I will come and tell the French that this is not what will solve the problem of illegal immigration". "Our government is totally incapable not only of dealing with illegal immigration, but the truth is that there has never been as much legal immigration as under Emmanuel Macron," she said.

Marine Le Pen calls for "a dissolution of the Assembly"

Marine Le Pen also considered that the government, forced to resort many times to Article 49.3 of the Constitution to have texts adopted without a vote in the Assembly, "should note that in the situation in which it is, it should return to the ballot box". "When we find ourselves in a situation like this, we proceed to the dissolution of the Assembly," she said, while saying she was convinced that Emmanuel Macron would not resort to it "because he knows that he would come out weakened".

The immigration bill arrives in the Senate chamber on November 6. It should then be scheduled for December on the Assembly's agenda.