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1:32 p.m., December 27, 2023
After Nupes and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, Emmanuel Macron officially referred the matter to the Constitutional Council. According to the Head of State, the immigration law has evolved compared to its initial version. But this initiative does not surprise the right, which even anticipated the risk of partial censorship.
An article, even if only a censored article from the immigration law and the Republicans have warned that they are showing the case. And yet, this is what is emerging with these three referrals to the Constitutional Council made official on Tuesday evening: the one requested by Nupes, another by the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, but above all, that of President Emmanuel Macron himself.
The risk of anticipated censorship
The Head of State puts his money where his mouth is. The referral, dated December 21, was registered by the Registry of the Constitutional Council on Tuesday evening and published on the site immediately. Emmanuel Macron justifies this address because, he says, the immigration law has evolved compared to its initial version. The presidential initiative will not surprise the right. We even anticipated the risk of partial censorship of the text. The response would already be ready. The president of the Republicans group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, clearly said it no later than last Thursday on Europe 1.
“If there is censorship, it will be proof that what we were putting forward with my friends the Republicans, that is to say that to have strong measures, a constitutional revision is necessary, then we will have this proof that “a constitutional revision will be necessary,” he stressed. And among the articles of this endangered immigration law, several provisions could actually be rejected. Among them, multi-year quotas for foreigners, the reestablishment of an offense of illegal residence or even the payment of social benefits. It is now up to the Sages to speak. They have one month to give their opinion.