State Councilor Mathieu Herondart has been appointed President of the National Court for the Right of Asylum (CNDA), a court at the heart of French migration policy and which experienced record activity last year, announced Tuesday June 21 the Council of State in a press release.
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Enarque and graduate of HEC, he will take on July 1 the head of the CNDA, which rules on the appeals brought by asylum seekers rejected at first instance by the Ofpra (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons).
“
Assessor in the litigation section (of the Council of State) since 2021 and judge in summary proceedings, he was appointed president of the National Court for the Right of Asylum
” where he succeeds Dominique Kimmerlin “
who asserted his rights to the retirement
,” the statement said.
In addition to a long career at the Council of State, which began in 2000, Mathieu Herondart has held various positions at the Ministry of Justice, including that of director of cabinet for the Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet in 2017. He will take over as head of of a scrutinized institution, the activity of the CNDA being at the heart of the government's migration strategy, which sees in its ability to quickly manage these files a way of better taking care of refugees and avoiding remaining in the territory people who do not qualify for asylum, with a view to deporting them.
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In 2021, more than 68,000 files were submitted to the CNDA, an increase compared to the pre-Covid 2019 year, which was already a record year in terms of activity.
"
We have a lot of pressure
", had entrusted to AFP in January the vice-president of the Court Isabelle Dély, in particular on the processing times and the reduction of the "
stock
" of outstanding files.
Mathieu Herondart was also appointed president of the CNDA in a context of internal mistrust.
Several strikes marked the end of 2021, including that of agents who denounced a "
numbers policy
" of the jurisdiction.
