Éric Ciotti, boss of UDR deputies in the Assembly, announced that his group would register on the agenda reserved in June a resolution proposal calling the government to denounce the Franco-Algerian agreements on immigration, at the heart of recent tensions between the two countries.
The president of the Allied group at the National Rally first questioned Prime Minister François Bayrou during the traditional questions to the government: “Until when will you accept the humiliation that the Algerian rogue state undergoing our country every day?”, Calling for “Reviving the agreements” of 1968, which give a particular status to Algerians in France in terms of traffic, stay and employment.
Refuting the term “of clamps”, Mr. Bayrou replied that the government was “determined to revise the agreements” for lack of “resumption” by Algiers of certain “Algerian nationals”.
Algeria rejected on Monday the list of sixty of its nationals that Paris wishes to expel, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau having promised in response a “graduated response” which would include, “at the end”, a “questioning of the 1968 agreements”.
“If the government does not do so, we will discuss it at the latest” on June 26, promised Éric Ciotti, the date on which his group will benefit from a day of which he can fix the parliamentary agenda. “It is very long, and I hope that the government will not use this period once in a dilatory way,” he continued before journalists in the National Assembly.
The resolution proposal that AFP was able to consult – and which would not be binding even in the event of adoption – provides that the “Algerian authorities show growing hostility towards France”, “that no reason now justifies that Algerian nationals” benefit from a favorable regime and that it is “necessary to stop mass immigration to France”.
She called to denounce the 1968 agreements and “the agreement of December 16, 2013” which allows the Algerian nomenklatura to go to France without a visa.
A proposal for a resolution asking the French authorities to denounce the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968 had already been defended without success in the Assembly at the end of 2023, in a day reserved for the LR group which was part at the time Éric Ciotti.
(With AFP)
