A new immigration law “does not seem a total priority to me”, says Gabriel Attal

The leader of the Macronist deputies Gabriel Attal judged on Monday October 14 that a new law on immigration, announced by the government for the beginning of 2025, did not seem “not totally a priority“.”Making a law for the sake of a law without explaining to us what would be in it does not seem to me to be a total priority.“, declared the former Prime Minister on France Inter. “Making a law for the sake of a law makes no sense“, he insisted.

On Sunday, the government announced a “new law“on immigration, the examination of which could begin”early 2025” in Parliament, just one year after the previous text on the subject which had fractured the majority in the National Assembly.

“There will be a need for a new law“, in particular to allow “the extension of the duration of detention in administrative detention centers“illegal foreigners deemed dangerous, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon announced on Sunday on BFMTV. One of the options envisaged is to increase the maximum detention period from 90 to 210 days, which is not possible at the moment than in matters of terrorist offences.