the underside of yet another turnaround

Elisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron, April 18, at the Élysée. STEPHANIE LECOCQ/REUTERS

umpteenth change of agenda around the future immigration bill. Two weeks after being dismissed later by Elisabeth Borne, this is the subject brought back to the top of the government’s priorities.

As revealed Le Figaro , the Prime Minister received this Tuesday evening at Matignon her ministers Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Olivier Dussopt (Labour), and Franck Riester (Relations with Parliament), in order to put the text back in the foreground. In connection with Emmanuel Macron, who deems it necessary to look into this file without delay, the head of government has instructed the Beauvau tenant to carry out consultations for a month. “to propose a strategy allowing the adoption of effective measures that can bring together the presidential majority”.

While The Republicans (LR) have announced the filing of two texts of “rupture» on the subject, the two heads of the executive hope to save face. With the announcement of a bill presented in July in the Council of Ministers, Emmanuel…