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Immigration law: 32 left-wing departments refuse APA reform
Immigration law: 32 left-wing departments refuse the APA reform – (France 2)
The 32 left-wing departments will not apply the reform of the personalized autonomy allowance (APA) contained in the immigration law. As it is not legal to circumvent the law, this refusal would in reality involve the creation of new allocations specific to the departments.
Gironde, Lot, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris… In total, 32 left-wing departments will not apply the reform of the personalized autonomy allowance (APA) contained in the immigration law. Today, more than 1.3 million dependent elderly people receive it, French people and foreigners in a legal situation. With the new text, foreigners who do not work will have to wait five years before benefiting from it. It will be two and a half years for those who work.
The Constitutional Council must examine the measure
However, it is not legal to circumvent the law. In reality, the departments will have to put a whole mechanism in place. “This would involve creating new allocations specific to the departments”, explains Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. The Constitutional Council must examine this measure. The left-wing departments hope that it will be censored.
