The deputies accepted in committee the top of the territorialized visas in 2030 | EUROtoday

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The National Assembly in Paris, France, April 18, 2025.

The deputies voted on Wednesday June 11 within the night, within the legislation committee for the repeal from 2030 of the territorialized visas in Mayotte which stop holders from a Mahorais residence allow from coming to France.

The abolition of this particular residence allow is eagerly awaited by the inhabitants of Mayotte who see it as an injustice and an absence of solidarity from mainland France within the face of the huge inflow of unlawful immigrants who got here specifically from neighboring Comoros.

Three an identical amendments (of rebellious France, the environmental group and the deputy of Mayotte, Estelle Youssouffa) proposed a right away repeal.

“The State uses our insularity to transform Mayotte into a pressure cooker and isolate the migration problem by fixing the Comorian population on our island”denounced Mme Youssouffa. “It is not acceptable that the rest of the national territory does not take its share of the migratory subject which completely destabilizes our department”added the elected Mahoraise, additionally co-reporter of the bill-program legislation, which lastly withdrew her modification for the advantage of that of one other co-rapporteur, the deputy (Les Républicains) de la Manche, Philippe Gosselin.

His modification was consensus and was adopted. It supplies for the repeal of the territorialized residence allow from 2030. “We have to send a real signal”in line with Mr. Gosselin, but additionally “Give time to time”and that the measures to fight unlawful immigration offered for on this legislation have impact.

Read the decryption (2023) | Mayotte, the French Department of Legal Exceptions

Fear of transferring the issue to the assembly

The speech of the deputy of Reunion, Emeline Ok/Bidi, against the instant repeal, a place towards the present of her group (Democratic and Republican left, GDR), was notably seen. This argued that within the state, the top of this particular residence allow would transfer the migratory drawback not in direction of France, however to Reunion Island, neighboring Mayotte within the Indian Ocean, which maintains very robust hyperlinks with it, despite the fact that its division is already the third poorer in France.

The Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls, praised “The height” debates in addition to the frequent place discovered between all of the rapporteurs of the textual content with this modification which makes “Useful work”in his phrases. He additionally recalled the opposition of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, to this repeal.

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Earlier, the deputies adopted an annexed report detailing the federal government’s commitments of the federal government. Nearly 4 billion euros over seven years are deliberate. This report additionally accommodates commitments when it comes to social convergence, whereas the RSA is for instance twice decrease than in France. However, it has no binding worth.

Measures for casual housing and expropriations

Earlier, within the Committee on Economic Affairs this time, the deputies attacked one other scourge, the casual housing. They validated a measure which permits the State to order the demolition inside twenty-four hours of a casual habitat when its building was famous lower than seven days in the past, towards 4 days at the moment. Above all, it removes the duty to supply a proposal for rehousing or emergency lodging to folks dislodged on this case, a measure notably decried by the left.

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In one other article, deputies rewritten a measure facilitating expropriations in Mayotte to permit the State the development of important infrastructure, a very irritating article on the archipelago. They circumscribed it to port and airport infrastructure.

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Debates in Law Commission should resume Thursday at 9 am. Nearly 170 amendments stay to be studied. The government-government invoice to “refound” Mayotte, already accepted within the Senate, should arrive within the hemicycle of the National Assembly from June 23.

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