Sophie Binet (CGT) and Marylise Léon (CFDT) ask Macron to withdraw the text

2023-12-17 15:45:00

The immigration bill definitely does not satisfy anyone. From the Senate which rewrote it to the National Assembly which rejected it last Monday, the text will be examined tomorrow at 5 p.m. by a joint committee. After the speeches, in particular, by the president of the MoDem and the president (Renaissance) of the National Assembly for the majority, it is the turn of the CFDT, the CGT, leaders of associations fighting against precariousness or defense of the rights of foreigners and academics to question, this Sunday, the Head of State on a “indelible stain on our republican principles”.

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“An attack on republican principles”

The general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT, Marylise Léon and Sophie Binet, the leaders of Cimade, the Abbé Pierre Foundation, the Human Rights League, France Terre d’Asile, the Union national interfederal association of private health and social works and organizations (Uniopss), as well as researchers François Héran, professor at the Collège de France, and Camille Schmoll, research director at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), request “solemnly” to President Macron “ not to give in to this spiral of escalation of proposals that infringe on the fundamental rights of people ».

The measures which serve as a basis for the CMP, resulting from the text voted by the Senate, “ undermine many of our republican principles, in terms of unconditional access to care or housing, respect for dignity, refusal to endorse logics of national preference », They write to the address of the tenant of the Elysée.

Only one outcome for the signatories: withdrawal of the bill

And to consider as so many “ compromises ” or of ” bargaining » measures such as the conditioning of social benefits on 5 years of legal presence in France, the reestablishment of the offense of illegal residence, the abolition of State Medical Aid (AME), the tightening of access to residence permits or even the promise to increase expulsions.

Denouncing the “bad wind” in France and Europe, the “growing poison of hatred and rejection of others”, the signatories judge that “the only viable outcome today is to withdraw this bill, which has demonstrated that it could not be adopted by a parliamentary majority on a basis respectful of our republican values.

A vote that aims to “block the country” (Macron)

As early as last Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, following the rejection of the text at the Palais-Bourbon, President Macron responded to the criticisms of his opponents: « Yesterday’s vote does not reveal the existence of a replacement majority » but aims “ to block the country ».

Pointing the “ cynicism », « the inconsistency » et « the game of the worst played in particular by two government parties which ruled the country for 40 years », « nWe need a law on integration and immigration (and) we defend the balance of our text “, he finally concluded.

(with AFP)