The National Assembly on Tuesday adopted at first reading the asylum reform, which aims to shorten the proceedings, the day after a key speech by Francois Hollande on the contribution of immigration. The bill was approved by 324 votes (socialists, radicals and left a large majority of IDUs) against 188 (UMP, FN) and 29 abstentions, by environmentalists and the Left Front who feel little ambitious text. The head of state expected a “large majority” to achieve one of his campaign promises, reducing examination times for applications. “Asylum is a constitutional right, which is part of the very identity of France,” he declared Monday in the city’s history of immigration in a speech lambasting those who agitate fear of “dislocation” of France and boasting generally the contribution of immigrants to the Republic. Manuel Valls, who had prepared the bill on asylum when he was place Beauvau, insisted Tuesday on the “politics both firm and humane on immigration issues,” conducted for two and a half years and called the right not to “abandon” a “republican discourse.”
The UMP is “deeply attached to this fundamental principle” of asylum, but “his vocation was misguided” and became a “machine to legalize illegal immigrants,” he told Eric Ciotti, on behalf of his group, taxing the government of “ideological blindness” and denouncing Text “ineffective at best and dangerous at worst.”
In a context of multiple international crises, applications have almost doubled since 2007, reaching 66,000 in 2013, but around 63,000 this year. Three quarters are rejected. France ranks third among European countries recipients of asylum applications, behind Germany, where demonstrations against this influx are organized, and Sweden.
“No great replacement”
“There are no great replacement, there is a great enrichment” through immigration, considered the rapporteur Sandrine Mazetier (PS), echoing the debates last week in the Chamber where the theory of the writer Renaud Camus extreme right of a “replacement” of the white Christian population of Muslims in Africa or the Maghreb could occupy minds in the UMP and the FN. This text was an opportunity for the main opposition group to wield its weapons for the review in spring 2015 of the bill on immigration, which provides multi-year securities stays. “Far postures and anathemas, faithful to our republican tradition,” centrist elected UDI have instead supported the draft law on asylum, which transposes the European Directives of “asylum package” of 2013 and should allow and to bring the two years of requests for records review time now to nine months in 2017.
Environmentalists and members of the Left Front, which nevertheless had a favorable assumption, criticized a ” Minimum transposition “of these guidelines when it was possible, they said, to go beyond the protection of applicants. “There are more than a desire to manage flows as expand asylum,” he told Noël Mamère (EELV). His group deplores such as access to the labor market, an addition of the Assembly Government text, is possible only after nine months. The leader of the Left Front MPs, André Chassaigne, ruled that the reform “does not dispel the suspicion” against asylum seekers who face an “uphill battle”. He has criticized “the directive hosting” set up for better distribution in the territory, which also concerned associations. Allocations will be deleted for foreigners who refuse to go to a certain place. Socialists and radical left have instead boasted a text “balanced”, which will now be de bated in the Senate in an expedited procedure.
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