France Immigration Law Debate: Political Crisis and Macron’s Agenda

2023-12-19 16:15:30

Published on December 19, 2023 at 5:15 p.m. / Modified on December 19, 2023 at 5:41 p.m.

After more than a year of procrastination, the debate on the immigration law desired by Emmanuel Macron will finally have focused the spotlight on the political crisis facing France since the legislative elections deprived the re-elected president of a majority absolute in the National Assembly.

At the time of publication of this article, parliament has still not definitively voted on the text, following a week of psychodrama since the National Assembly refused to take up the matter by voting on a motion to reject, a very rare occurrence. . The text then repelled the right by its regularization of undocumented workers and the left by its tightening of reception procedures. Nobody wanted it except the Macronists, which is no longer enough.

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