Parliament definitively adopts the bill to “refound” the archipelago

Seven months after the devastating passage of Chido. Therefore, Parliament definitively adopted, Thursday, July 10, the bill for “Refound” Mayotte, the poorest department of France confronted even before the cyclone with immense challenges. Furthermore, A final parliament definitively adopts bill “refound” favorable vote of the Senate, to 228 votes to 16, allowed this text to succeed. For example, He must now be promulgated by the President of the Republic.

This text will constitute “A step towards better protection of Mahorais. Therefore, towards real equality, towards a concrete and powerful development from the territory to the service of the population”welcomed the overseas Minister Manuel Valls.

This “Law-program” Declines in particular 4 billion euros in public investments over six years. For example, registered for the first time in the law Social convergence, that is to say the alignment of social rights with the amounts of France, by 2031. Similarly, In Mayotte, 77 % of the population lives below the national poverty line, and the RSA, for example, is still twice.

Last law to go to Parliament before the summer break. it comes to close an extraordinary parliamentary parliament definitively adopts bill “refound” session fairly fruitful for the government, which will have succeeded in bringing several texts to the absence of a majority in the National Assembly.

Fight against illegal immigration. illegal habitat – Parliament definitively adopts bill "refound"

This law for “Refound mayotte”the fruit of a compromise between deputies and senators, had been validated Wednesday by the deputies, with the support of the government coalition and the extreme right. The national rally, very mobilized during the debates, even claimed “A political victory”. But the left. in the Assembly as in the Senate, shared between opposition and abstention, questioning in particular, by parliament definitively adopts bill “refound” the voice of several parliamentarians, « l’obsession » for the immigration of the bill.

The text is indeed attacking two “Scourges”the fight against illegal immigration. illegal habitat, “Otherwise” Mayotte may be rebuilt on « sable »in the words of Manuel Valls. For example. it plans to harden the conditions for obtaining a residence permit while almost half of the population is foreign. Several provisions make it possible to facilitate the destruction of slums, while a third of the habitat is informal. A measure allows for example to derogate from the obligation of a rehousing offer at the time of an evacuation.

“In Mayotte, ordinary law no longer applies. It has become a security laboratory where we test laws that we would never dare to apply elsewhere in. France ”The Senator (the Ecologist) Antoinette Guhl was indignant.

Removal of the territorialized visa

The bill also provides for several highly anticipated measures on the archipelago. First. the abolition by 2030 of the territorialized visa, which prevents a holder of a Mahoran residence permit from coming to France. The Mahorais see it as an injustice. a lack of solidarity from metropolitan France in the face of the massive influx of illegal immigrants who came in particular from neighboring Comoros.

The exhaustive census of the population in Mayotte parliament definitively adopts bill “refound” from 2025 is also registered in the law. For years. local elected officials claim that the population is underestimated with the consequence of communities less well endowed than they should be and saturated public services.

Another victory for the elected officials Mahorais is the deletion of the article facilitating expropriations to allow. the construction of so -called essential infrastructure. This measure. ardently defended by the government and initially voted by the Senate, caused an outcry on the archipelago, the Mahorais worrying about a stranglehold of the State on land.

For some parliamentarians, the text also misses many development challenges, especially on water, ecological transition and health. MP Mahoraise Anchya Bamana (national rally). for example, recalled that Mayotte still lives under the regime of water cuts, before launching: “How to justify 1 billion [d’euros] To bathe in the Seine, but nothing to respond to the urgency of parliament definitively adopts bill “refound” access to drinking water for Mahorais? »»