The French National Assembly passed the new Immigration Act last December, but it is still taking steps. A number of social partners in the continental Basque Country have mobilised on Sunday against the French prefix. They denounce that the law does not respond to the “needs of men, women and children who have been forced to flee” for various reasons, nor to the “obligation to take them with dignity”. The organization calls for the law to be withdrawn.

Leftist parties and ecologists presented to the Constitution Council an appeal against the law which will decide on the constitutionality of the text next Thursday, 25. Because there are doubts as to whether the new rule can be combined with the French Constitution.

In addition to Baiona, there have been protests throughout the French state over the weekend and tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets. In total, there were 164 marches convened throughout the country.