Republicans denounce executive evasion

Eric Ciotti, Aurelien Pradie and Bruno Retailleau on November 26, 2022 in Paris. Albert FACELLY/Divergence

When Elisabeth Borne announces from the Élysée the postponement of the immigration bill until the fall, the blood of Bruno Retailleau does not make a turn. The president of the Les Républicains (LR) group in the Senate cannot agree to hear the Prime Minister claim that an absence of “common line” to the right “between the Senate and the ***emblyis the cause of a lack of majority to vote for such a text today.

“I am appalled by the statement. It is not us, but its majority that is deeply divided. Moreover, this immigration text continues to be postponed since last summer. I remind you that we had already been announced for the beginning of October in the Senate”, entrust to Figaro the parliamentarian while he is in Lebanon, while specifying that Elisabeth Borne did not consult him upstream, contrary to what the words of the Prime Minister suggested.

Moreover, according to our information, the president of the centrist senators, Hervé Marseille, partner of the senatorial majority…