Invited Tuesday on BFMTV, Lucie Castets defended generalized regularization of all undocumented immigrants. Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS, said he did not agree with the NFP candidate for Matignon.
Invited this Tuesday, September 24 on the BFMTV set for her first interview since the formation of the Barnier government, Lucie Castets declared that she was “rather in favor” of the regularization of “all undocumented immigrants”. Including those without a job. Before returning immediately to part of his remarks.
“I have to look more, but (I am) rather in favor of that,” initially explained the candidate supported by the New Popular Front to become Prime Minister.
“What I am saying is that migrants are permanently stigmatized. They are people who contribute to the functioning of society, they are people who pay taxes. They make society function,” justified the person who occupied the position of director of finance at the city of Paris until last month.
“Moreover, we saw it during the debates on dual nationality and on national preference, we saw to what extent this put in difficulty the economic sector that the National Rally stigmatizes to this extent and declares that it wants to exclude foreigners from work in France,” she continued.
Olivier Faure “disagree with this position”
The program or “legislative contract” of the New Popular Front, which brings together the left-wing groups from the Socialist Party to La France insoumise, plans in particular to “create legal and secure channels of immigration” and to “guarantee the right to full land for children born in France and facilitate obtaining French nationality. But there is no mention of regularization of all undocumented immigrants.
Asked whether her statements were also made in the name of the Socialist Party, Lucie Castets replied that she was speaking “in her own name”.
In fact, this Wednesday morning, the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, also interviewed on BFMTV, declared “not to agree with this position which is not ours”.
“Our position is to say that we must put an end to a form of hypocrisy with these women and men who keep the country on its feet, who work, who are often in conditions of exploitation, and these must be regularized. And that’s what I’m sticking to.”
On Tuesday, Lucie Castets herself had hinted at a backpedal by saying secondly “think(s) that we need a significant regularization of undocumented immigrants”. “I don’t know if it’s the whole thing. I’ll have to look,” she added.
