In addition to the President, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and around 60 MPs, most of them from political forces, appointed the nine-member committee “The Wise Men”. left in contrast to the norm.
According to the Franceinfo network, Macron argued in his request that the text has undergone significant changes compared to the original version presented by the government, which is why it is important to check whether the content approved by Parliament respects the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.
The executive branch's proposed immigration law was tightened by conservatives in the Senate, where the Republican Party dominates, and failed to be brought to a vote in the National Assembly due to a rejection motion that blocked debate.
In response to the failure, Macron convened a joint commission (seven senators and seven deputies) in which the ruling party and the conservatives reached an agreement so beneficial to the latter in the effort to toughen the treatment of immigration that the The far right described the initiative as an ideological victory.
Prime Minister Borne and Interior Minister and main promoter of the project, Gérard Darmanin, admitted that some of the planned measures could violate the constitution, including charging a security deposit for foreign students to be admitted to educational centers in France.
The text also restricts family reunification and the legalization of undocumented workers and calls for reform of state medical assistance for “undocumented people,” a benefit the rights seek to abolish.
It is unclear when the Constitutional Council plans to issue its irrevocable decision.
“The wise” have a month to express themselves and their decision can be to validate the law, which would allow Macron to proclaim it, or to censure it, which would mean the annulment of the votes in Parliament, which the agreement of the mixed parties was followed by the Commission.
Another possibility, perhaps the most likely, is that the Council rejects some articles of the standard and allows them to be promulgated.
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