THE CLOTH OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL AGAINST PARLIAMENT THE VOICE OF THE FRENCH

THE WIDELY CENSORED IMMIGRATION LAW

All these provisions introduced by the Senate were censored as legislative riders, the legislator not having the right to add provisions unrelated to the subject addressed by the bill. For these articles, the Constitutional Council did not have to take a substantive position on the constitutionality of these measures.

.The text, reduced by 40% of its volume, has regained its initial size, with four chapters: the reform of foreigners' litigation, that of the right to asylum, the integration of foreigners in particular through work and the question of removal of delinquent foreigners.

He largely censored the law by removing numerous measures obtained by the right.

LR calls for a new text

After the censorship of the Constitutional Council, the Les Républicains party asked the government to include the censored provisions in a new text.

"We ask the government to resume as quickly as possible in a specific legislative text all the provisions invalidated by the Constitutional Council as 'legislative riders'", indicates the party in a press release signed by its boss Eric Ciotti, as well as the president of the group in the Senate Bruno Retailleau and his counterpart in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix.

In a press release, MEP LR François-Xavier Bellamy denounces "a coup against a law that the French were waiting for". “By asking the Constitutional Council to empty of its substance a text voted by Parliament and massively supported by society, the government proves that it does not want our country to be able to regain control of immigration. This confirms the requirement carried by LR of a referendum on this crucial subject", he writes.

Bardella denounces "a coup by the judges, with the support of the President of the Republic"

The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, denounced Thursday "a coup of force by the judges, with the support of the President of the Republic himself", after the Constitutional Council rebutted, totally or partially, 35 measures of the law immigration voted in mid-December in Parliament. “The Constitutional Council censors the firm measures most approved by the French: the immigration law is stillborn. The only solution is the referendum on immigration,” added Jordan Bardella in a message published on X.

And Marion Maréchal in a message published on X .: “Those who claimed that this law would reduce immigration made fun of the French.

June 9 will be a referendum: each Reconquest ballot will be a ballot against immigration."

This censorship by the Constitutional Council is, beyond the law, an eminently political decision, in defiance of the will of the vast majority of French people.