Immigration bill: Macron brandishes the use of article 49.3
The president said he would use “what the Constitution allows” to not “be pushed around” by Republicans on this text.
“I don’t want to be jostled by fortune majorities or blockages”, warned Emmanuel Macron from the start, about the vote on the immigration bill in the Assembly. The head of state told Le Figaro that he did not rule out the possible use of article 49.3 on this text, the examination of which was postponed until the fall. “I will use what the Constitution allows me to do,” he said, saying he was “more Gaullist than the Gaullists” in reference to the Republicans.
On July 24, Emmanuel Macron had however said that he had “good hope” that the “republican oppositions […] help to build a text” on immigration. But he had already suggested that he would not exclude the use of 49.3 to have the text adopted without a vote in Parliament, for lack of an absolute majority in the National Assembly: “The Constitution provides paths for the texts and I will have the responsibility that efficiency is achieved. »
LR hopes to toughen the text
The Republicans have shown their desire to influence the majority in order to toughen the text. A pressure which could increase, the right having like the far right made the link between the riots which followed the death of Nahel on June 27 during a police check, and immigration.
This article is originally published on lepoint.fr
