Benjamin Morel is a lecturer in public law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. Latest book published: La France en miettes (ed. du Cerf, 2023).
Pyrrhic victory? Tactical victory, strategic defeat; This is undoubtedly the result of an immigration law, voted with difficulty on December 19, for the government and Emmanuel Macron.
The defeat of the executive is first and foremost political, and can be considered in three ways.
First of all, it is personal for Gérald Darmanin. The minister wanted an immigration law to embody a social and firm line on the regalian. It would be difficult to consider that the Minister of the Interior has been strengthened by this text. The gamble of proposing a strong and right-leaning majority was shattered by a motion of rejection. The text was only saved by ceding everything to LR, which is not really what you could call a partnership.
The other political objective of the text was to present a legislative assessment...
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