2023-12-23 01:15:21
Left-wing deputies brandish signs saying “Liberty”, “Equality”, or “Fraternity” at the National Assembly, in Paris, on December 19, 2023, following the vote on the “immigration” law. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD”
The left-wing deputies officially seized the Constitutional Council, Friday December 22 evening, to contest the entire immigration law and “a record number of articles contrary to constitutional principles”they estimate.
The elected representatives of the four left-wing groups (La France insoumise, the socialists, the ecologists and the communists) say in a press release that they should be “auditioned at the beginning of January” to the Constitutional Council to present their arguments. The left had already announced its intention to seize the “wise men”, which President Emmanuel Macron will also seize for his part. The Council has a maximum of one month to decide.
In their appeal, the left-wing deputies point to around thirty articles and demand total censorship of this law adopted Tuesday evening. They are opposed to conditioning access to certain social benefits to the length of residence in France, considering the measure “contrary to the principle of equality”and unrelated to the bill (“legislative rider”). They also denounce the tightening of family reunification rules, seeing it as a “violation of privacy and the right to lead a normal family life”.
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“Lack of awareness of the right to health protection”
These elected officials attack the establishment of « quotas » set by Parliament to cap “for the next three years” the number of foreigners admitted to the territory, seeing it as a “lack of understanding of the powers of Parliament”.
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Among other grievances, they also contest the exclusion of foreigners in an irregular situation from social pricing in transport, considering it “contrary to the principle of equality”. They further accuse the bill of “lack of awareness of the right to health protection” in “restricting the conditions of obtaining” residence permit for sick foreigners.
Left-wing deputies criticize a “unequal treatment” foreign students with the article which asks them to justify the character “real and serious” of their studies. They also denounce in this text what they consider to be “a challenge to the principle of unconditionality of emergency accommodation”.
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