left-wing deputies officially refer the matter to the Constitutional Council

They want to challenge the entire immigration bill and “a record number of articles contrary to constitutional principles”, according to them. The left-wing deputies officially referred the matter to the Constitutional Council on Friday, December 22. The elected representatives of the four groups of the ex-Nupes (LFI, PS, ecologists and communists) write 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 Sages, 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.

Measures “contrary to the principle of equality”?

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”.

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 Parliament’s powers”. 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.