Éric Coquerel considers that the Government does not guide its policy in the right direction with respect to Mayotte, devastated four months ago by the Chido cyclone, who exacerbated the problems with which the archipelago was already faced.
More specifically, the rebel vice president and the president of the Finance Committee of the Assembly advances this Thursday, April 21 in BFMTV-RMC that “the migratory question is a bit lure not to touch the fundamental problem.” That of “public services” and “water equipment”.
“It is an apartment that is part of the country, of France, but that does not benefit at all of what benefits the departments in France,” says Éric Coquerel, asking for “Republican Equality” between the territories.
The Executive has been determined, in recent weeks, to act in the Migration Archive in Mayotte, concerned with a strong immigration of neighboring comoros.
As of January 1, 2024, the INSEE Institute of Statistics estimated the population of Mayotte with 321,000 people. And according to the department of the department, cited In an information report Of the National Assembly in May 2023, just under 50% of the population is of foreign nationality. “Between a third and half of the population would be in an irregular situation,” according to the prefecture.
Distribute migratory pressure “throughout the country”
The Parliament adopted an LR bill on Tuesday, April 8, with the support of the presidential camp, to restrict the right of the land to Mayotte a little more.
While Emmanuel Macron, present in Mayotte on Monday, will present a bill for the “recast” of the archipelago, including a component on the fight against illegal immigration.
In detail, LR’s text, which has been the subject of an seizure of the Constitutional Council for the deputies of the left, aims to impose a period of one year of residence in a father for his son to obtain French nationality.
This measure is strengthening a specific defeat of Mayotte, which has imposed on children born in the archipelago since 2018 to have a father who regularly resides in the French soil for at least three months at the time of birth, to obtain French nationality later.
Éric Coquerel shows its skepticism in BFMTV-RMC. “I do not agree that the acquisition of nationality in Mayotte is different from the rest of France,” says the elected official of Seine-Saint-Denis.
“At the migration level, I ask that the conditions to obtain submerged visa when they reach Mayotte can allow him to go to continental France. This is not the case. The migratory pressure, if distributed throughout the country (…), it would be much less for Mayotte,” he explains.
In Mayotte, around a third of the population, or more than 100,000 inhabitants, especially people in an irregular situation from the Comoros, live in precarious accommodation. Before Chido’s approval, the unemployment rate reached 37% and the standard of living remained seven times lower than in other parts of France.
The Cyclone left 40 people dead and caused damage to 3,500 million euros on December 14.
Source: BFM TV
