Question 16908 — foreigners

Summary

Mr. Matthieu Bloch alerts the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, of the Government's refusal to pass the bill aimed at prohibiting the marriage of foreigners in an irregular situation. On May 13, 2025, the President of the Republic publicly declared, during a televised debate with the mayor of Béziers, that he was in favor of examining and adopting a bill prohibiting the marriage of foreigners in irregular situation, describing this debate as a “common sense debate”. This position was relayed and supported by the Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, as well as by the Minister of the Interior. The text, adopted by the Senate, was then to be examined by the National Assembly. However, during the day reserved for the UDR group, June 25, 2026, this bill was the subject of assumed parliamentary obstruction on the part of the La France insoumise group, preventing its adoption. However, the Government had the option, in application of Article 44, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, to ask the National Assembly to decide by a single vote on the text, retaining only the amendments that it had accepted, thus putting an end to this strategy of obstruction. The Government's refusal to use this constitutional tool raises serious questions. While the President of the Republic himself had presented this measure as being "common sense", while the Keeper of the Seals had publicly supported the principle and while many mayors, more than 90% of them, faced with the difficulties of applying current law, have been calling for several years for a change in the legislation, the Government ultimately chose not to act when it had one. concretely the means. This new episode feeds the feeling of a growing gap between declarations of intention and actions. After showing its support for this reform, the executive allowed parliamentary obstruction to flourish without mobilizing the constitutional tools at its disposal to allow Parliament to decide. He therefore asks him for what reasons the Government did not use the provisions of article 44, paragraph 2, of the Constitution in order to put an end to parliamentary obstruction and to allow the adoption of this bill, although supported by the President of the Republic and several members of the Government. He also asks him if this renunciation reflects a change in the executive's position on this reform or if it constitutes a new illustration of the gap between the announcements governmental policies and their concrete translation into public action.

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