When judges veto key sections of a flagship government bill, it is unusual for a president or prime minister to see that as a victory. But that may be how Emmanuel Macron views last Thursday’s decision by France’s constitutional council to annul about a third of his highly controversial immigration bill.
Lacking a parliamentary majority, Mr Macron is playing a highly risky game of cat and mouse with the French right, amid polls that give Marine Le Pen’s radical right a 10-point lead ahead of June’s European elections. To get the bill through the national assembly, where the president’s centrist party depends on rightwing votes, it was toughened up with a raft of harsh and discriminatory amendments. Ms Le Pen hailed an ideological victory. Mr Macron seemingly relied on the courts to defend republican values against his own government’s legislation. Continue reading...
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