“Very good news”, “a slap in the face”.
After learning of the broad censorship of the government's immigration law by the Constitutional Council on Thursday evening, the left heaved a sigh of relief.
And pointed to a defeat for the executive and the right.
“It is a snub for the government, the Republicans and the extreme right who had all compromised together, but it does not erase the denial and the political victory of the extreme right with the adoption of this text in December,” judged the boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure.
“The government will bear as an indelible stain the call to pass a law aligning with the historic positions of the extreme right, under pressure from LR,” he added on X (formerly Twitter).
Satisfaction after the decision of the Constitutional Council.
The Government will carry as an indelible task the call to pass a law aligning with the historical positions of the extreme right under pressure from LR.
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— Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) January 25, 2024
The Constitutional Council “recalls that the worst racist delusions of Macron and Le Pen are contrary to our republican principles.
The law is completely amputated.
It has no legitimacy.
It must be withdrawn,” said the coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard.
Her colleague Mathilde Panot, president of the Insoumis deputies, judged that this decision was a “huge snub for Macron-Darmanin-Le Pen”, emphasizing that “racism is not constitutional.
The text should now be removed.
Entirely… "
“We will continue to fight so that the law is not promulgated”
From there to declare victory?
“We managed to create a shield on the left, to get our foot in the door.
But for the moment, we have not succeeded in showing that we could do otherwise, offer an alternative,” tempers environmentalist senator Anne Souyris.
In recent weeks, the representatives of the left had wanted to increase the pressure until the end on the Sages of the rue de Montpensier, through referrals and mobilizations in the street, in the company of the unions.
“I welcome the censorship of many articles of the immigration law, but this law will still have been an opportunity for an open forum for far-right ideas,” also moderated the EELV MP, Sandrine Rousseau.
The national secretary of the EELV Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, still welcomed “a real lesson in the rule of law sent by the Constitutional Council”.
“We will continue to fight so that the law is not promulgated,” she promised, judging that there remain “abominable measures”.
The senator and spokesperson for the PCF Ian Brossat, for his part, observed the “monumental slap in the face for the government”, judging that the decision of the Constitutional Council to censor more than a third of the articles of the law was “a demonstration of their incompetence, of their cowardice, and their break with the values of our Republic.
When you play with fire, you get burned.
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The withdrawal of the text, however, seems illusory.
Shortly after the decision of the Constitutional Council, Emmanuel Macron “took note” of it and asked Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, to “do everything possible” to “apply as quickly as possible” the law.