LR wants to regain its place on the sovereign thanks to the parliamentary niche

Doubled by Emmanuel Macron on economic issues, deeply divided society, the group Les Républicains (LR) wants to exist under this legislature by betting on its favorite entity, the sovereign. This is the whole meaning of his parliamentary niche, which is scheduled for Thursday 1^Eh Three of the four bills introduced by LR MPs in December deal with immigration and security. By Mansour Camardin (Mayotte) and the two candidates of the LR Congress, Eric Chiot (Alpes-Maritimes) and Aurélien Pradié (Lot), the texts aim to ease the conditions for the expulsion of foreigners, which are a serious threat to the country. public order and create two specialized jurisdictions for foreign offenders and domestic violence. A more consensual text by Aisne Julien Dive on agricultural pensions for elected officials should receive government support.

If these three texts are rejected in committee, the LR group and its seventy-two deputies, who emerged from a very weakened legislative election and very divided positions before the government, intend to seize the day. As they deliver an agenda to mark his difference with the presidential coalition, speaking to the voters of the National Rally (RN). “We believe that the French expect quite radical measures on immigration and we cannot allow the RN to appear as the only party with little will on the subject.”, Supports the president of the LR group in the National Assembly, Olivier Marlex. “If we let the migratory and sovereign subjects go, it is because the majority has absorbed them. This is our main difference with them”LR MP for the Loire, Antoine Vermorel-Marquez, abounds.

Discomfort in the group

Especially since most of the bills presented by the government at the beginning of the legislative body on purchasing power, unemployment insurance or Covid-19 were adopted by the votes of LR deputies after agreements, more or less simple, depending on the texts, the government was adopted. And these agreements forced the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to announce on France 2 at the end of October that his desire to establish “Alliances” with LR deputies on the following texts, which causes some discomfort in the group, which always places itself in the opposition.

The right-wing group also wants to air its proposals a week ahead of a debate on immigration scheduled for December 6 in the Assembly, and especially weeks before Home Secretary Gerald introduces a bill on the same subject. Darmanin and work, Olivier Dussopt. “A government that wants to be very vague on immigration seems unwilling to support our texts.”Mr. Marlaix, who has been pushing particularly hard against foreign criminals, has narrowed appeals procedures after deportation decisions, lamented Tuesday morning. “Who are we expelling and who are we protecting?, continued Mr. Marley. Should French prisons be overcrowded with foreign criminals or should they be deported outright? » A rhetorical question posed by the president of the LR group to the terms of the debate on the immigration bill before the government.