This Thursday, more than 150 personalities are asking the Head of State not to promulgate the immigration law which “fractures the foundations of the Republic”. Emmanuel Macron defends his text tooth and nail.
08:28 – More than 150 personalities sign a platform calling on the president to renounce this law
This Thursday, the newspaper L’Humanité publishes the column of trade unionists, intellectuals, athletes and artists, who ask the president not to promulgate the law. “In the last presidential election, millions of votes went to Emmanuel Macron in the second round to block Marine Le Pen. ‘This vote obliges me,’ assured the elected president. The immigration law, a real stepping stone to the “nationalist ideology of the extreme right, is a betrayal of this solemn commitment made to the French”, they write, adding: “This law of hatred and division poses a heavy threat to the fate of our fellow human beings, foreigners or immigrants, therefore on the cohesion of our society. It opens the way to the worst. Faced with this danger, we, citizens concerned about living together, call on the Head of State to pull himself together. Do not promulgate this text of all the dangers!”
20/12/23 – 11:35 p.m. – “Where is the lookout, the French light?” asks Benoît Hamon
– END OF LIVE – Benoît Hamon was the guest of 19/20 info from franceinfo, Wednesday December 20. Regarding the immigration law and the rise of the far right in Europe, he asked himself: “Where is the lookout, where is the French light? See at this point how the Macron star has gone out, […] as the leader of an NGO attached to the principles which are those of the Republic, I am deeply worried”, he concluded. He is general director of the Singa association.
20/12/23 – 11:10 p.m. – Amnesty International warns of the crossing of “very serious red lines”
On The NGO denounces the reduction in social assistance and emergency accommodation, reduced access to family reunification, the restoration of the offense of illegal stay, the elimination of the collegiality of judges at the CNDA.
12/20/23 – 10:45 p.m. – A petition to ask the president not to promulgate the law
A petition was posted online by Humanity, Wednesday December 20, after the interview with Emmanuel Macron in C à vous. Entitled “Do not promulgate the immigration law”, it brings together several politicians, but also actors from the cultural world. Martine Aubry, Manuel Bompard, Annie Ernaux, Anne Hidalgo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Alice Zeniter are among the signatories.
12/20/23 – 10:20 p.m. – After the adoption of the immigration law, Fabien Roussel calls for “resistance”
Guest of LCI, Wednesday December 20, Fabien Roussel called for “resistance”, “for questions of human dignity. I fear that this very harsh text will add poverty, misery in our country. We are going to put putting tens of thousands of people on the streets. He denounced an injustice towards undocumented workers who contribute and build the country without receiving anything in return. “We must organize resistance”, launched the national secretary of the PCF who called for “civil disobedience”.
20/12/23 – 9:55 p.m. – For Edouard Philippe, the immigration law is a “compromise text”
Édouard Philippe, former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron, assures that the immigration law is a “compromise text between the majority and LR”. “I think that this text is consistent with our values and that it provides the instruments that we need, even if I am not enthusiastic about 100% of its provisions,” he adds.
20/12/23 – 9:25 p.m. – For Alexis Corbière, “macronism is cynicism”
On He was responding to Emmanuel Macron who assured in an interview for C à vous that the immigration law was a “defeat for the National Rally”.
20/12/23 – 9:03 p.m. – Hundreds of demonstrators in Rennes
Demonstrators marched peacefully in Rennes on Wednesday, December 20, to denounce the immigration law adopted by Parliament, indicates Le Parisien, which quotes information from AFP. Hundreds of people gathered to shouts of “withdrawal, withdrawal of the Macron-Le Pen law”.
20/12/23 – 8:42 p.m. – Jean-Luc Mélenchon assures that the immigration law is inspired by Le Pen
On Among them, the withdrawal of family allowances and APL from foreigners in a legal situation, the calling into question of state medical aid and the end of the automaticity of land rights. “Macron claims that the immigration law is not inspired by Le Pen, that’s false. It’s directly in his program,” he writes.