It is the return of a right-wing figure to business. Patrick Stefanini was appointed, on Friday, November 29, special representative of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, with the main mission “strengthen the readmission system for people in an irregular situation”Place Beauvau stated in a press release.
Enarque, State Councilor, Prefect, Stefanini had a long career on the right. A faithful servant of Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Alain Juppé (he was convicted with him in 2004 in the case of fictitious jobs in the Paris city council) and François Fillon, he was in particular Valérie Pécresse’s campaign manager when she was a candidate for the 2022 presidential elections. .
At 71, after retraining in consulting, Stefanini returns to a ministry she knows well. In particular, at the end of the 1980s, he was deputy director of immigration and cross-border circulation, but also, later, one of the architects and then secretary general of the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity, created in 2007 under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, and that established the concentration in Place Beauvau of the management of migration issues.
“A utilitarian vision”
“He is a very competent person, estimates Didier Leschi, director of the French Immigration and Integration Office. He is one of those who really thinks about immigration issues. » In any case, there is a book dedicated to it: Immigration, these realities that are hidden from uspublished in 2020 by Robert Laffont. In this work he expressed his thoughts and praised the work of Charles Pasqua, Brice Hortefeux and Nicolas Sarkozy, who was, in his eyes, “the only President of the Republic who [avoir porté] an overview of your immigration policy (…) under the name of “selected immigration”.
He also defended the interest of agreements for the concerted management of migratory flows, which consist of organizing legal migratory routes and conditioning them on the cooperation of the country of origin in the return of its irregular nationals.
“He is a reasonable right-wing man, who has a utilitarian vision of immigration. “He thinks we should stop it, although he knows we need it in economic matters.”summarizes Jean-François Carenco, former prefect and minister delegate responsible for overseas territories, who was his fellow student at the ENA.
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