Large parts of the new immigration laws were repealed, a defeat for President Emmanuel Macron and the far right.
Paris. In a context of escalating migration problems, French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a bitter defeat. The stricter new immigration laws that his government passed in parliament just before Christmas were largely annulled by the Constitutional Court (Conseil Constitutionnel) due to a lawsuit brought by the left-wing opposition, it was announced on Thursday night .
The guardians of the Constitution suppressed or corrected many things because the articles submitted to them questioned not only the traditions of the republic, but also its fundamental values. Almost half, 37 of the 86 articles, were challenged. This particularly affected those that were added by the mostly conservative Senate to tighten the government's bill. For example, changing the way children born in France to foreign parents acquire citizenship. They get this automatically when they come of age because of the Jus soli that has been in effect for centuries. This must now be requested separately. So the tradition remains.