France’s Constitutional Council opposes many parts of Macron’s anti-immigration law

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the new French immigration law is a key and important program for Emmanuel Macron is the president of this country. Now the Constitutional Council has declared a large part of this law inadmissible.

Thus, the French Constitutional Council repealed a large part of the new and controversial immigration law. According to the decision of this council, 32 of the 86 articles of this law had no sufficient connection with the actual proposed law. According to their statements, the French government wants to use this proposed law to control immigration and improve integration. To this end, Paris wants to grant temporary residency to migrants who previously worked without residency documents in understaffed jobs. At the same time, the government wants to be able to force some of the immigrants who were previously protected to leave the country and expand the deportation. A painful and torturous debate in parliament was passed only with the help of the right-wing populist opposition, and it also escalated sharply. French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp no longer has an absolute majority in the French National Assembly since parliamentary elections in June 2022, and therefore depends on opposition votes for its projects.

Macron and a number of MPs then This law was submitted to the Constitutional Council. The French Constitutional Council, similar to the German Federal Constitutional Court, examines laws and projects in terms of legality. He had approved the initial one presented by the government, welcomed it and said: only the articles that were added later in the parliament were rejected.

has surrendered to the right-wing populist party of Marine Le Pen. On Sunday, about 75,000 people across the country demonstrated against the law. Before the decision of the Constitutional Council, there were protests against this law.

However, the French Constitutional Council has clearly rejected the new immigration law. This means that several aggravating measures that the right-wing parliament wrote in December will be removed from the law. It will be considered a criminal offense again in the future.

These are some of the aggravating measures that the Constitutional Council has now removed from the law.

During the debate on this plan in the parliament , the government quickly lost control. Since the government does not have its majority in the National Assembly, it needs the allies it hoped to find among the rightists. And from this position of power, the right-wing demanded a number of aggravating measures intended to make France unattractive as a country for immigration. In this way, several provisions were included in this law with the goal that right-wing nationalists such as Marine Le Pen had been demanding for a long time.

The president presented the new law to the Constitutional Council immediately after the final vote. .

​ Now it is the turn of President Macron again. He can draft a new bill – or implement those parts that the Constitutional Council has not criticized. He has every reason to go this second way. Because now the immigration law is again in accordance with the draft that the government presented a year ago.

However, the decision of the Constitutional Council is also a rebuke of the president. During the political negotiations, he had given several concessions to the rightists because he wanted to keep his credit bill.

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