The immigration bill definitively adopted by Parliament


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12:17 a.m., December 20, 2023

With 349 votes for and 186 against, the National Assembly adopted the immigration bill on Tuesday, a few hours after the green light from the Senate. A victorious epilogue for the majority, but not without political consequences.

Parliament definitively adopted the immigration bill on Tuesday, 349 deputies voting for and 186 against, after a favorable vote by the Senate earlier in the evening, a victorious epilogue for the majority, but carrying serious political consequences.

Deputies and senators agreed earlier in the day on a common version of the text, after long and difficult debates. “The immigration text has been definitively voted on. A long fight to better integrate foreigners and expel those who commit acts of delinquency. A strong and firm text. Without the voices of RN deputies”, welcomed the Minister of the Interior , Gérald Darmanin, on the X network (formerly Twitter).

A “sickening victory”

The RN and the right voted for the text, the left against, each group filling up with its votes except the communist group where it was one vote short. The majority, however, was divided with 20 votes against and 17 abstentions at Renaissance, 5 votes against and 15 abstentions at MoDem, and 2 votes against at Horizons.

The leader of France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, denounced a “sickening victory” acquired thanks to the voices of the extreme right. “Without the 88 votes of the RN = 261, less than the absolute majority (which was 265, Editor’s note)! (…) A new political axis has been put in place”, he reacted on The PS announced immediately after the vote an appeal by the Constitutional Council, an approach that the President of the Republic had already announced.





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