The JDD. What is the purpose of this proposed law?
Estelle Youssouffa. A political outcome. It aims to repeal land law and dual nationality in Mayotte. Foreign children born in Mayotte are used by their parents to obtain residence permits, then French nationality: this is a certainty. According to the national prenatal survey in the Droms published in September 2023 – conducted in 2021 by the Regional Health Agency and Public Health France –, 85% of permits issued and renewed in Mayotte relate to family immigration. A huge contrast with the rest of France, where the rate is 38%.
You are submitting two bills: the first is constitutional for the repeal of land law. The second is an ambitious Mayotte law…
Mayotte is currently experiencing a false calm. We need to establish legislative objectives to restore a political orientation, therefore a commitment from the government. I am therefore submitting my Mayotte bill with financial programming, a timetable and a path to implement social equality. Mayotte deserves to resume the discussions chaired by the Head of State in May. It is time to continue the political work to move away from the deadly status quo. We must also send a double message: to the Comoros, which uses migratory flows to destabilize the territory; but also to our compatriots who suffer from inequalities and intolerable violence.
The context of Mayotte raises the question of sovereignty
The abolition of land rights in Mayotte – already mentioned in a draft constitutional law – had provoked strong political reactions, particularly on the left…
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However, we are in a transpartisan approach which wants to overcome divisions. The question of Mayotte, which is known in France and which worries many French people, poses problems which go far beyond our department: that of sovereignty, equality, access to rights, health and water… These values can bring together the entire hemicycle.
The archipelago is also subject to daily violence… On two occasions, so-called “Wuambushu” operations were set up to dismantle shanty towns, arrest criminal gang leaders… Where are you now?
It was a good start, but not all the operations to destroy the slums were completed. With the crisis in New Caledonia, the police were rightly mobilized; then followed the Olympic Games. The work already well started could not be finished…
On Friday, a hospital shuttle, and therefore caregivers, was attacked. So the Mahorais are suffering this violence?
The violence is unbearable: Mayotte has the right to live in peace, and I hope that the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, will send sufficient reinforcements to restore order on our island. It is a long-term project started by his predecessor; we must hold on and continue the effort.
