After the demobilization of left-wing France, divided by the Gaza war, in the last few months, the streets of the neighboring country were filled again this Sunday. tens of thousands of people This Sunday we demonstrated against protests across the region tough immigration lawencouraged by the government Emmanuel Macron and was approved on December 19. far right votes.
The protests were called after a manifesto was published in progressive newspapers. Media section And L’Humanite Signed by 201 people, including political leaders and union leaders, Actors like Marina Foïs or writers like Laurent Binet or Lydie Salvayre. It took place four days before the controversial legislation was due to be decided by the Constitutional Council.
“In this text, especially in some measures regarding the provision of social assistance, concept of national preference (One of the fundamental demands of the far right),” he condemned. Jacques ToubonThe former conservative minister and former Ombudsman is in the front row of a demonstration in Paris attended by around 25,000 people.
In addition to the procession held in a festive atmosphere in the area near the Eiffel Tower in the capital, Protests in 150 more locations. Between 150,000 peopleAccording to organizers and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 75,000 people demonstrated to demand the withdrawal of the law known as the Darmanin law (the surname of the Minister of Internal Affairs).
Before the constitutional decision
Darmanin law, which was originally developed to facilitate the deportation of immigrants in irregular situations and foreigners who have committed serious crimes. One of the harshest immigration texts in France in recent years After a series of negotiations between Macronism and the Republican right with radicalized assumptions on this issue. Finally, it toughened the conditions for foreigners to claim social benefits, reintroduced the crime of irregular stay, stripped French citizenship of bi-nationals who killed a police officer, and even made this punishment mandatory. a kind of surety for students From countries outside the European Union.
After approval in the National Assembly and Senate, then-Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne agreed: Some of these measures may be unconstitutional. France’s equivalent of the Constitutional Court is due to rule on the law on Thursday.
“It should not be the Constitutional Court that changes the text. “It doesn’t seem normal to me that MPs vote for legislation knowing that it may be unconstitutional.”In statements to El Periódico de Catalunya of the Prensa Ibérica group, 22-year-old Arthur M., a student in the Department of Communications and a member of a student association that helps refugees and the homeless, complained. 55-year-old editor Emmanuelle, who attended the demonstration in Paris with her mother and daughter, said with a somewhat naive perspective, “If the Constitutional Court changes the law too much, maybe Macron will not stop publishing the law.”
Although this Sunday’s protests will have little impact on the president’s willingness to advance the text, they confirm French society’s opinion on the matter. right wing so much so that he unanimously supports the law of harsh Darma.