Emmanuel Macron announces the division of the text and the postponement of the exam in “the next few weeks”

Change of strategy on immigration. President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday March 22 that the immigration bill would be “cut out” in “shorter texts” which will be examined “in the next weeks” by Parliament, during a television interview on TF1 and France 2.

Announced for months, contested by associations for the defense of exiles, shouted down by the left and deemed very insufficient by the right and the far right, the text which began its course in committee in the Senate last week, was to be debated in from Tuesday in the hemicycle of the High Assembly dominated by the right-wing opposition.

But against a backdrop of political and social fever after the adoption via the 49.3 procedure of the highly contested pension reform, the executive is organizing its withdrawal on a subject deemed too abrasive to be debated immediately.