Bluff, bloodshed… In the Senate, behind the scenes of a week of negotiations on immigration

If the main staircase was not covered with a thick red and gold carpet, those who walked on it would have heard, that evening, the angry footsteps of Gerald Darmanin strike against the stone. “When we have a deal, we don’t try to pretend we’ve won!loses his temper the minister of the Interior in front of a Les Républicains (LR) senator. And what’s more, he adds more during the session, frankly!» The reason for his wrath? A very offensive speech by Bruno Retailleaua few minutes earlier.

Last Wednesday, as the debates on the famous article 3 of the immigration bill, which provides for the regularization of illegal workers in so-called “shortage” professions, were coming to an end, the Hemicycle witnessed a full-blown attack.

“Minister, you are not short of air! I know that in politics, chutzpah is often a quality. You want people to believe that the system proposed by the senatorial majority is the equivalent of the one you proposed. Nay!spear…