Assembly resumes consideration of asylum-immigration bill in an electrical atmosphere

The deputies resumed Wednesday night the examination of the controversial asylum-immigration bill, carried by a Gerard Collomb weakened by the Benalla affair, in an electric atmosphere in the hemicycle with offensive oppositions around the course of the commission of inquiry.

If it postponed to the re-entry the continuation of the constitutional revision, the government maintained the new reading of this text until Friday evening, even this week -end. Objective: a definitive adoption on August 1st, last day of extraordinary session, after a final shuttle with the Senate.

"A subject that brings Europe to the brink of disaster"

"If the news has, unfortunately, a little diverted from the calendar of reforms (…) nobody in the country would understand (…) that we can not debate a text so fundamental "on" a subject at the heart of the concerns of the French and which brings Europe to the brink of disaster ", defended the Minister of the Interior, in front of a hemicycle garnished and heated to

Assembly Speaker François de Rugy (LREM) himself was at the "perch". At the beginning of the session, several recalls to the regulations (LR, PS, BIA, PCF) criticized the desire to "muzzle the commission of inquiry" obtained "forceps". The "commission of inquiry Cahuzac was presided over by [Charles] de Courson, which did not let itself be imposed by the majority the list of the persons auditioned", a commission "not with the orders of the executive power", affirmed Valérie Rabault (PS) .

"You are no longer in a position to carry this law"

With "the Macron-Benalla affair … you are no longer in a position to carry this law", in a motion of Rejection to the tone of indictment, Eric Coquerel (LFI) to the Minister of the Interior, "a liar" according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. "It is not tenable to examine this text," which "seeks to flatter an electorate of the extreme right," according to Elsa Faucillon (PCF).

After the rejection of a second motion, reference, the Unworn people left the hemicycle before the general discussion. "We can not continue to debate as if nothing had happened with this denial of democracy" in the commission of inquiry, Ugo Bernalicis justified. "We'll let them go and we'll come back tomorrow to see if they listen," said Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the corridors. For Eric Ciotti (LR), "our democracy has been damaged for a week according to the revelations."

Fustigating the "political politician" earlier, Gerard Collomb was keen to stay on the bottom. "For a year, we have tackled the challenge of migration," otherwise "we would open the way to populism," he pleaded. The project aims in particular to reduce to six months, against eleven today, the instruction of the asylum application, on the grounds of facilitating both the expulsion of rejected and acceptance of accepted. The Assembly, sparse and peaceful, has for the moment attacked the amendments to the first four articles. There are 373.