The Constitutional Council rules on Thursday on the validity of the shared initiative referendum (RIP) on immigration by the Republicans. Launched a month ago, the right's RIP project partially takes up the measures censored in January by this same jurisdiction in the immigration law.
If it is validated by the Constitutional Council, the Republicans will have to collect within nine months nearly 4.8 million signatures, or 10% of the electorate. “It is time to finally give a voice to the French,” said LR boss Éric Ciotti when submitting this RIP on March 12. Their referendum proposal, which includes five articles, aims to reform access to social benefits for migrants. It is a procedure enshrined in the Constitution since 2008, but which has not yet been crowned with success, as the conditions for it to succeed are difficult to overcome. The government and the socialists have denounced it as an RIP of shame, denouncing it as “an RIP of Shame” and “a referendum of shame”