National identity: “There will be no conflict on these subjects within the government,” says François Bayrou

While his idea of ​​organizing a broad debate on immigration divides within the majority, the Prime Minister assures that he will guarantee “the correctness and balance”, in an interview with the Parisian.

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François Bayrou, in the National Assembly, in Paris, February 5, 2025. (Julien de Rosa / AFP)

“There will be no conflict within the government” On national identity subjects, assured François Bayrou, Saturday, February 8, when his idea of ​​organizing a broad debate on immigration divides within the majority. My mission is “To guarantee its correctness and balance”added the Prime Minister in an interview with Parisian. “The question for me is much wider (than soil law) : What is it to be French? What rights and, above all, what duties does this open? “, he questioned, qualifying these questions as “essential debates”, which he believes to be “The guarantor of good performance”.

About the migratory issue, the head of government believes that it “deserves to be treated” not in “Systematic confrontation”but in “Mutual understanding” and adds not to want to make these subjects “Exasperation subjects”. “Why do you think that the whole West is struck by these questions? This is a questioning of everything we are, we Western. We must treat them, understand them, talk about them”still hammers François Bayrou.

Friday, on RMC, the Prime Minister had already judged “Too narrow” A debate that would only relate to soil law as suggested by the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, and called to “An in -depth and much wider public debate” Including other subjects around the concepts of identity and citizenship. On Saturday, he also considered that the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, had “Reason to say that there is a problem”after the cancellation by the administrative judges of the expulsion procedure which aimed at the Algerian influencer Doualemn.

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