French President Emmanuel Macron will abandon his immigration bill if no consensus can be reached on the text in a new parliamentary procedure, for which he will need the support of the right, executive spokesman Olivier Veran said on Wednesday, as quoted by EFE and Agerpres.

In an interview with the LCI TV channel, Veran explained that there will be no appeal to the approval of this draft law by decree, although such an approach is allowed by the Constitution and despite the fact that this mechanism was resorted to in April, when the pension reform was adopted.

Veran also said that the dissolution of parliament, which could lead to new parliamentary elections, would not solve the security problems that the immigration text aims to solve, nor the “stability” problems.

The EFE agency notes that behind this answer is the hypothesis that the extreme right, led by Marine Le Pen, will be the ones to head the executive power to replace the government led by Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne.

A French government spokesman insisted he did not want to consider the possibility of a lack of compromise in a joint commission of seven MPs and seven senators meeting next week to find a solution.

Macron’s new decision to try to push immigration reform through parliament

This joint joint commission, in which the Macronist bloc does not have a majority, is the exit chosen by the French president after the National Assembly plenary on Monday voted by a narrow majority in favor of a motion to reject the debate. on the draft law, which entered the legislative procedure of the Senate.

The impeachment motion, a political setback for Macron and especially for his interior minister Gérald Darmanin, won the support of the left-wing opposition that tabled it, as well as far-right Marine Le Pen and almost all MPs from the Republicans (LR), the conservative right-wing party in France.

The bill presented by the government includes a provision aimed at facilitating and speeding up the deportation of immigrants with an illegal status, especially criminals, and another provision that allows for the legalization of those who have been in France for more than three years and work in sectors with a problem due to a lack of labor, such as such as HORECA, certain medical services and construction.

France is home to 5.1 million foreigners with relevant documents, i.e. 7.6% of the population, and hosts more than half a million refugees.

At the same time, according to the authorities, the number of illegal immigrants is from 600 to 700 thousand people. According to a recent opinion poll cited by AFP, two-thirds of French people believe that non-European immigration could pose a danger to France.