On October 30, 2025, the French National Assembly narrowly adopted a Rassemblement National (RN) resolution calling for the denunciation of the 1968 Franco-Algerian migration agreement. This symbolic vote, backed by right-wing deputies, is the first such success for a far-right text since 1958. It threatens to heighten tensions between Paris and Algiers.
On October 30, 2025, the French National Assembly approved by 185 votes to 184 a resolution proposed by the RN calling to 'denounce' the Franco-Algerian agreement of December 27, 1968. Signed six years after the Algerian War, the accord provides Algerians with specific facilitations for circulation, immigration, and residence in France. Though not legally binding, this adoption marks a historic symbolic victory for the far right, as Marine Le Pen hailed it as a 'historic day' and 'a step' rather than a turning point.
The text gained support from half of Les Républicains (LR) deputies and the Horizons group, amid low mobilization from Macronists. Gabriel Attal, president of the Ensemble pour la République group, was absent during the debate, with only 40 from his camp present, of whom 30 voted against. The left condemned the text as 'racist,' but also suffered from absences.
This vote highlights the weakening of the 'cordon sanitaire' against the far right, a European strategy born in the 1980s to marginalize its ideas. In France, it emerged in 1987, but breaches have appeared, such as in the 1983 Dreux municipal elections. It fits into heightened Franco-Algerian tensions fueled by France's rightward political shift, its pro-Moroccan diplomacy (recognition in July 2024 of the 'Moroccanness' of Western Sahara), and Algeria's repressive policies. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu advocates renegotiation over denunciation, emphasizing a relationship driven by French interests.
