Renaud Muselier obviously has messages to convey to his former political family. Guest of the “Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-M6”, the Renaissance president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region (Paca) attacked the position of the Republicans on the immigration bill, which is arriving this Monday in public session at the National Assembly. “We people on the right should have voted for Gérald Darmanin’s law a long time ago. If we could have done it, we would have done it willingly. So it’s coming and we have to vote for it,” he assured, praising a text capable of “stopping part of immigration.”
The former Secretary of State of Jacques Chirac, who slammed the door of LR in 2021, called on Éric Ciotti and his people to seize this “moment of truth” to “affirm their political credibility”. “It’s a moment of truth for all those who constantly explain that it’s the fault of immigration if things are going badly in this country,” he insisted, while the boss of LR made it known that he refused to vote for the text proposed by the Minister of the Interior.
Renaud Muselier also took the opportunity to underline the “difficulties” of the presidential camp in “dealing” with the LR deputies, who “have not found solutions on any subject”. “On pension reform, the deals that had been proposed with the LRs of the Assembly were not kept, although they were in the Senate,” he pointed out. We can see that it is difficult for them to hold their own majority.”
Olivier Marleix’s troops could also be tempted to vote on the motion for prior rejection, which must be defended Monday afternoon by environmentalists. If the National Rally (RN) decides to support the Greens’ initiative, it would only take around twenty LR votes to reject the government’s project. “I have a hard time seeing Mr. Ciotti voting with the Greens, who also contribute to border crossings and facilitate the task of immigration,” said Renaud Muselier, who does not “believe” in support from the right. Before calling on the Republican benches for “political coherence”.
The boss of Paca, however, gave a good point to his former comrades. He said he was in favor of “the revision” of the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968, which facilitates the movement, stay and employment of Algerians in France. Except that Renaud Muselier does not want to “delete everything” as the right wants. “The geopolitical situation of 1968 has nothing to do with that of today. We must review the agreement, amend it, restructure it and renew relations with Algeria which are extremely violent,” he argued.
