the emergency invoice adopted in committee on the National Assembly | EUROtoday

This is the primary legislative act of François Bayrou’s authorities. The emergency invoice for Mayotte was adopted, on the evening of Tuesday January 14 to Wednesday January 15, in committee on the National Assembly. The textual content goals to speed up the principles and procedures on the town planning to permit the speedy reconstruction of the archipelago devastated by Cyclone Chido in mid-December. It additionally incorporates extra short-term social measures.

During the debates that started on Monday afternoon, as tropical storm Dikeledi moved away, the Minister for Overseas Territories, Manuel Valls – who was making his return to the parliamentary cauldron on this event – burdened that the textual content was not that one “first response” to the multifaceted disaster hitting the Indian Ocean archipelago.

The rapporteur of the textual content, the MP for Mayotte Estelle Youssouffa (LIOT), attacked in her introductory remarks a textual content “without real ambition”elaborated “without consultation with local elected officials or parliamentarians”and who stays “largely silent on essential subjects such as immigration”. The second MP for Mayotte, Anchya Bamana (National Rally), mentioned she ” angry “ towards a invoice “which misses its subject”by not permitting us to battle towards “migratory submergence”.

Several MPs additionally criticized the federal government for attempting to have measures to fight slums adopted by modification, exposing itself to the chance of inadmissibility. These amendments had been successfully rejected, as a result of they had been deemed to haven’t any direct or oblique hyperlink with the textual content.

The authorities has “nothing to hide” concerning the cyclone’s toll

Manuel Valls recalled that one other draft “program law” containing longer-term measures was deliberate for March. A invoice geared toward limiting land rights in Mayotte will even be examined on February 6, offering for extending the period of residence of fogeys for his or her youngsters’s entry to French nationality.

An modification from former Minister of the Environment Dominique Voynet was adopted, requesting that the federal government submit, inside one month after the promulgation of the legislation, an exhaustive evaluation of the catastrophe, notably on the human degree.

The authorities supported it, with Mr. Valls emphasizing that the State had no “nothing to hide”and regretting the “accusations” made through the common coverage declaration of the Prime Minister by the speaker of the National Rally. MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy vehemently accused the federal government of “lies[ir] about everything in Mayotte »and in particular “on the seriousness of the human toll” of Cyclone Chido. The textual content have to be examined within the Hemicycle on January 20. The Senate plans to take it up on February 3.