With or with out the votes of the National Rally? How the immigration regulation could possibly be handed | EUROtoday

Published on : 12/20/2023 – 09:35Modified : 12/20/2023 – 09:37

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Contradict the info to raised persuade the bulk. As quickly as his invoice was voted on by the National Assembly, Tuesday December 19, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, hastened to guarantee journalists that the textual content had been voted on “without the votes of the National Rally” . “We saw that the majority was large. And even if we remove the votes of the National Rally, very large,” he declared within the Hall of the Four Columns.

The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, adopted comparable rhetoric on the identical time. “The majority united. The RN maneuver failed. This evening, only the general interest won,” she wrote on X.

However, the depend of votes which allowed the adoption of the immigration invoice reveals the other. The textual content was voted on by 349 votes for and 186 in opposition to, out of 573 voters. In element, 189 Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons deputies out of 251 voted for, in addition to 8 Liot deputies out of 21, 2 non-registered deputies, the 62 Les Républicains deputies and the 88 National Rally deputies.

The invoice would subsequently nonetheless have been adopted within the occasion of abstention from Marine Le Pen’s group, however not within the occasion of a vote in opposition to, because the RN had dedicated to doing till its change of coronary heart on Tuesday on the finish of afternoon. Because with a majority set at 268 votes – solely the 535 votes solid are taken into consideration – the textual content would have acquired solely 261 votes for and 274 in opposition to.

The opposition deputies didn’t fail to focus on the federal government’s arithmetic maneuver. “Without the 88 votes of the RN the text is not a majority”, wrote on X the primary secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, earlier than including an illustration.

“This evening, if the deputies of the National Rally voted against, this text would not pass, contrary to the lies uttered by Mr. Darmanin. It is a total victory for the ideas defended by Marine Le Pen”, for his half welcomed far-right MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

A fractured majority

The stakes are excessive as a result of Emmanuel Macron assured his troops Tuesday night, throughout a disaster assembly on the Élysée, that the regulation on immigration shouldn’t be adopted due to the votes of the National Rally. The president even stated he was contemplating requesting a second parliamentary deliberation within the occasion of adoption due to the votes of the far proper, a participant reported to AFP.

“The president said that we would not take the RN votes into account in the final count, because this text will have to be adopted without the votes of the RN,” defined this participant.

Analysis of the vote additionally reveals the state of division of the bulk. The president of the Law Commission Sacha Houlié, former ministers Stéphane Travert and Nadia Hai and the previous president of the group Gilles Le Gendre notably voted in opposition to.

In element, 20 Renaissance deputies, 5 MoDem deputies and a couple of Horizons deputies voted in opposition to, whereas 17 Renaissance deputies and 15 MoDem deputies abstained.

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The stoop additionally impacts the federal government: the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau introduced his resignation to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, based on Le Figaro, with out us understanding throughout the evening whether or not it had been accepted. Élisabeth Borne, nonetheless, affirmed on Wednesday on France Inter that Emmanuel Macron “did not receive” a letter of resignation from the minister.

Ministers Patrice Vergriete (Housing) and Sylvie Retailleau (Higher Education), who disagreed with the textual content, had additionally “put their resignation in the balance” on Tuesday after the rallying of the RN, based on a ministerial supply.

Before the National Assembly, the Senate, dominated by the fitting and the middle, had adopted the immigration invoice by 214 votes to 114.