AFPPresident Macron at a press conference at the Palais de l’Élysée on January 16
NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 21:38
A large part of the new controversial migration law of President Macron’s government has been scrapped by the French Constitutional Council. The plans in the bill are largely contrary to the constitution, the council believes.
The bill stated that parliament could establish a quota for migrants. The council rejected this. This also applies to plans to limit family reunification.
In addition, the plan to only entitle some legal migrants to some benefits after a five-year stay in France was rejected.
The law was intended to make it easier for the government to deport “unwanted” foreigners from France. In addition, it would become more difficult for migrants to bring family members or partners to France, or to apply for social housing or benefits.
France correspondent Frank Renout:
“You could say that Macron strategically got what he wanted. Last year he presented a migration law, with stricter entry rules and better integration plans. But Macron does not have a majority in parliament. To get the law passed, he sought support from the right-wing opposition party Les Républicains. That support came, but under conditions: the law had to be stricter. So measures were added to further restrict the arrival of migrants.
The amended law was passed in the Assembly, but the monkey soon got out of hand. Both Macron’s Prime Minister and his Minister of the Interior suddenly said: there may now be measures in the law that go too far.
So the law was sent to the Constitutional Council for review. And today the council decided to delete no fewer than 30 of the 86 articles of the law. And these are mainly the measures that the right-wing opposition added. And so the president got his plans through, exactly as he wanted. But the right-wing opposition is angry. He feels used by the president.”
The Assemblée Nationale, the French House of Representatives, voted in favor of the government’s new migration law on December 19. But the bill’s passage did not go without a hitch.
A week earlier, a motion was passed not to discuss the law. Both left and right criticized the law. After the vote, Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau resigned.
Last Sunday, around 75,000 people took to the streets in various French cities in protest against the migration law.
The law is an important part of Macron’s policy during his current second term. According to critics, Macron wanted to cut off Le Pen with the strict law. In five months there will be European elections, and Le Pen’s party is leading in the polls.
2024-01-25 20:38:02
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