Seven months after Chido’s approval, Parliament definitely adopted this Thursday, July 10, the bill to “re -found” Mayotte, the poorest department in France, faced even before the cyclone with immense challenges.
A favorable final vote of the Senate, 228 votes to 16, allowed this text to succeed. Now he is waiting for his promulgation by the President of the Republic.
This text will constitute “a step towards a better protection in Mahorais, towards real equality, towards a concrete and powerful development from the territory to the population’s service,” he welcomed Manuel Valls, the foreigner minister.
This “program law” decreases in particular 4 billion euros in public investments for six years and was registered for the first time in the social convergence of the law, that is, the alignment of social rights with the amounts of France, with 2031.
The RN claims a “victory”
In Mayotte, 77% of the population lives below the national poverty line, and the RSA, for example, remains double.
The last law to approve the claws of Parliament before the summer holidays, closes an extraordinary parliamentary session quite successful for the government, which will have managed to take several texts to the absence of a majority in the National Assembly.
This law to “recast Mayotte”, the fruit of a commitment between deputies and senators, had been validated Wednesday by deputies, with the support of the government’s coalition and the extreme right. The national demonstration, very mobilized during the debates, even claimed “a political victory.”
The left divided between opposition and abstention
But the left, in the assembly as in the Senate, shared between opposition and abstention, in particular questioning “the obsession” of the project of immigration, accused several parliamentarians.
The text attacks two “pests”, the fight against illegal immigration and illegal habitat “, without which” Mayotte runs the risk of being rebuilt in “Arena”, in the words of Manuel Valls.
For example, it plans to harden the conditions to obtain a residence permit, while almost half of the population is foreign. Several provisions allow to facilitate the destruction of marginal neighborhoods, while a third of the habitat is informal.
A measure allows, for example, to repeal the obligation of a relocation offer at the time of an evacuation.
“In Mayotte, the ordinary law no longer applies. It has become a security laboratory where laws that we would never dare to apply in another part of France,” said ecological senator Antoinette Guhl.
Elimination of territorialized visa
The bill also provides several highly anticipated measures in the archipelago. First, the abolition for 2030 of the territorialized visa, which prevents the head of a residence permit from Mahorais arriving in France. The Mahorais see it as an injustice and a lack of solidarity of Metropolitan France in the face of the massive influx of illegal immigrants who came in particular from the Comorous neighboring.
The exhaustive census of the population in Mayotte since 2025 is also registered in the law. For years, local elected officials claim that the population is underestimated with the consequence of the less well -endowed communities of what they should be and saturated public services.
Another victory for elected Mahorais officials is the elimination of the article that facilitates expropriations to allow the construction of the essential infrastructure that is calculated. This measure, ardently defended by the Government and initially voted by the Senate, caused a burst of shields in the archipelago, the Mahorais care about a dominance of the State on land.
“Unpublished”, “solid”, “historical”, there is no lack of government adjectives to qualify the text. But for some parliamentarians, it loses many development challenges, especially in water, ecological transition and health.
Deputy Mahoran Anchya Bamana, who sits in the RN group, for example, recalled that Mayotte still lives under the water cut regime, before launching: “How to justify one billion to swim in the Seine? But nothing to respond to the urgency of access to water to drink for mahorais.”
Source: BFM TV
