Thousands protest in France against Macron’s anti-immigration plan

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” newspaper, in a few days, the French Constitutional Council is going to decide on the controversial plan to tighten the country’s immigration law. More than 75,000 French people came to the streets and protested against this government immigration law across the country on Sunday. As for the controversial immigration law in France, tens of thousands of opponents of the project took to the streets across the country.

According to the French Interior Ministry, a total of 75,000 People participated in the demonstration on Sunday. The CGT union, one of the organizers of these protests, announced the number of participants in this massive rally on the online service X, formerly Twitter, at 150,000.

According to the police, 16,000 people took part in the Paris demonstration, according to the CGT union, the number of protesters was 25,000. Posters read: “Immigration is an opportunity for France.” In total, more than 160 demonstrations were planned for Sunday.

More than 200 celebrities, including writers, actors and journalists, called for the protest. They wanted to put pressure on the government, hoping to stop the tough immigration law that was passed in mid-December by an all-right vote of the populist Rassemblement National (RN) party. Last Sunday, thousands of people took to the streets against this law.

This new law, among other things, specifies that non-EU foreigners in France only after Five years of residence can receive some social benefits.

This call, which was also signed by representatives of several unions, states: Since we We are looking for unity and solidarity rather than endless division in the society, we ask the president not to approve this law. They strongly criticized this government plan. Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said the law opened the door to far-right ideas.

Madie Cisse, a 59-year-old Senegalese construction worker He had participated in these protests and said: “Without us, the work of this country will not progress.” We are the ones who wake up at five in the morning to do construction work, collect garbage (…). We even clean the offices of the municipalities that do not receive papers from us. that this law has weaknesses and should be reviewed by the Constitutional Council. Macron is going to speak about this next Thursday.

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