2023-06-08 05:52:15
Immigration, act III, scene 6. On Wednesday June 7, at the National Assembly, the group Les Républicains (LR) continued to occupy the political arena by putting to the vote a motion for a resolution on the “cost slippage” health coverage for foreigners in an irregular situation.
After having tabled two bills in recent weeks acting as a counter-offer to the government’s immigration bill – stuck for lack of a majority – the right is seeking to keep control of the debate. The LR group in the National Assembly also announced, on Wednesday June 7, that it had tabled another motion for a resolution with the aim of denouncing the 1968 Franco-Algerian agreement on immigration, a subject also raised by the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in an interview with L’Express Monday, June 6.
A majority of parliamentarians, however, rejected on Wednesday the text calling for cutting state medical aid (AME), by 120 votes once morest and 77 for. Led by the deputy (LR) of Orne Véronique Louwagie, the 59 LR deputies intended to denounce the cost (1.14 billion euros estimated in 2023, or approximately 0.5% of health insurance expenditure) of the AME, which benefits more than 400,000 undocumented people and, according to them, promotes “irregular immigration for care”. At the perch of the National Assembly, Véronique Louwagie defended her proposal in vain “common sense”which aimed to « limiter » the AME to only urgent care. Besides LR, only the National Rally (RN) voted for.
On the left, the deputy Europe Ecology-the Greens of Yvelines Benjamin Lucas has also accused LR of “poaching on the far right”while the deputy La France insoumise Caroline Fiat (Meurthe-et-Moselle) recalled that “nearly 35% of [étrangers sans titre] do not use the AME, even several years following their arrival in France”.
Darmanin’s outstretched hand
During the debates, the different groups of the majority, for their part, evolved on a crest line. If they believe that a restriction of the AME would risk causing a massive transfer of requests for care to the hospital or the aggravation of benign pathologies, they defend the reform of the system already launched under Emmanuel Macron, in 2019, and which might still complement the immigration bill pending in Parliament.
“It is normal and healthy to have this debate as long as it stands outside of both miserable and xenophobic caricatures”for example estimated the deputy Horizons Christophe Plassard (Charente-Maritime), evoking “shocking abuse”. “We will vote once morest, but we think there is a real debate”, said in turn the deputy MoDem Anne Bergantz (Yvelines). Renaissance MP Mathieu Lefèvre (Val-de-Marne) spoke to LR and said “ready to work with you (…) to reduce excesses and fraud related to the AME”.
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