According to the leader of one of the main unions in France, an appeal for marches in this capital and other cities, signed by 200 personalities of the associative and trade union world, will be made public in the next few hours.

The immigration law is a profound attack on the values of the Republic, she stressed to France Inter.

Léon also affirmed that the initiative represents a loss of fraternity, a position shared by other organizations.

At the end of last year, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the other major French trade union, also criticized the text, which still has to be validated by the Constitutional Council, through the voice of its secretary general, Sophie Binet.

Approved on December 19 after an agreement in a mixed commission between the ruling party and the conservatives, the law has been rejected by measures which even the government admitted could be contrary to the Constitution, such as the imposition of a guarantee deposit for foreign students in order to be accepted in French universities.

The law also restricts family reunification and regularization of undocumented workers and calls for reforming the State Medical Assistance to people “without papers”, a benefit that the right wing wants to eliminate.

The far-right National Rally party and its leader, Marine Le Pen, claimed the text as an ideological victory, further inflaming the controversy.

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