Macron, who was visiting India yesterday, signed the initiative abroad, since the Council's decision was issued late Thursday evening.
The “Wise Men”, as the nine members of the body are called on French soil, abolished or changed 35 of the 86 articles in the law, which was approved by the National Assembly and the Senate on December 19, changes that were greatly celebrated by the government. Criticisms from the right and far right.
The Constitutional Council condemned the differentiation in access to social benefits for foreigners, the recovery of the lost crime of “irregular residence”, the imposition of immigration quotas, the obstruction of family reunification and the establishment of a fund as a condition for accepting immigration studies. Young foreigners in French universities.
Likewise, it abolished restrictions on the right to land (on the nationality of children of foreigners born in France) and adopted elements initially promoted by the executive to integrate undocumented workers working in jobs with labor shortages.
Parliament adopted the immigration law on the basis of a consensus text, agreed in a mixed committee of senators and representatives from the ruling party and the Conservatives, who negotiated on their behalf and ensured that the rule approved in the Senate prevailed, over which they controlled.
The government then assumed that it did not quite like the initiative, and turned to the Constitutional Council in the hope that it would nullify or amend several articles, which is what eventually happened.
The traditional right (the Republican Conservative Party) and the extreme right (the National Rally Party) criticized the Council, accusing it of carrying out a “coup by law or force” and of violating what is supposed to be in France’s interest: a harsh hand. On immigration.
The previous day, the head of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, described the questioning of the institution he heads as extremely disturbing on public television.
In this sense, he determined that the opinion issued was purely legal.
On the left, large sectors maintained their questions about the law and urged Macron not to activate it.
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