The right is rumbling. The president of the Republicans Éric Ciotti denounced, Friday January 26, “a democratic hold-up” of the Constitutional Council which, by censoring for formal reasons a large part of the immigration law, “deprives the French people of their sovereignty”. Describing this decision as “scandalous”Eric Ciotti also accused on RMC the president of the Constitutional Council Laurent Fabius of “collusion” with Emmanuel Macron. Follow our live stream.
“No failure” for the majority. The decision of the Constitutional Council to widely censor the immigration law “is definitely not” a failure for the presidential majority, argues on France Bleu La Rochelle, Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly.
An “indelible stain” for the left. The Constitutional Council’s scissors were greeted with “satisfaction” on the left of the political spectrum, even if “the government will bear the call to vote as an indelible stain” the law, reacted the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure.
A rapid promulgation to come. Emmanuel Macron asked Gérald Darmanin to “do everything possible to ensure that the law is applied as quickly as possible”. The Head of State will promulgate the text “in the coming hours”, announced on TF1 the Minister of the Interior, who summoned the prefects on Friday morning to give them his first instructions in terms of controls, expulsions and regularizations.