France’s right-wing, anti-immigration party, National Rally (RN), has passed a resolution in the National Assembly, marking the first time it has done so in the party’s history.
The subject is significant, as it denounces the 1968 Franco-Algerian Agreement, in the wake of several months of rising tensions between the two countries. Going forward, it will be much more difficult for Algerians to obtain visas into France.
The resolution passed with 185 votes in favor and 184 against.
LR and Horizons voted in favor of the text
Marine Le Pen, head of the RN parliamentary group, posted a video on X to mark the occasion: “I thank the groups—those of Édouard Philippe and Laurent Wauquiez—who voted in line with their opinions.
Je remercie les groupes – ceux d'Édouard Philippe et de Laurent Wauquiez – qui ont voté en cohérence avec leurs opinions.
En revanche, je suis extrêmement critique à l'égard de Gabriel Attal, qui a indiqué être contre cette convention, et qui a demandé à ses députés de voter… pic.twitter.com/M1eqKgXKFG
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) October 30, 2025“On the other hand, I am extremely critical of Gabriel Attal, who indicated that he was against this convention, and who asked his deputies to vote against the denunciation of this convention.”
Attal is the general secretary of President Macron’s Renaissance party. Édouard Philippe, mayor of Le Havre, founded the center-right Horizons party, while Laurent Wauquiez is a member of (and previously headed up) The Republicans.
Just last week, Remix News wrote up a report from two Macron deputies, who concluded that the 1968 agreement, as well as the 1980 Social Security Convention and various legal interpretations of the agreements, must be tossed.
The report shockingly revealed that Algerian immigrants cost the state €2 billion per year.
Algeria, a former colony of France, has long benefited from French appeasements of its colonial past, including making for easy travel, residency, and family reunification for Algerians in French territory.
However, the Algerian community has long been a thorn in France’s side due to the existence of parallel communities, anti-French Islamist attitudes, and crime.
The past several months have proven to be a tipping point with a few key events, starting with outrage from Algiers at Macron’s backing of Morocco’s plan for Western Sahara. There was then the imprisonment of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal (who was also denied medical treatment for cancer), and France’s attempted expulsion of Algerian influencers for inciting violence against those opposed to the Algerian regime (with Algiers sending them directly back, claiming their rights had been violated), and otherwise hateful comments against France.
Now, with the passage of this resolution, France, under the leadership of Le Pen, takes the first step to reclaiming its dignity and demanding respect from a country that has long abused its welcome. Time for Algeria to play by new rules.
Posting on X, Le Pen stated: “This is a tremendous victory for us and for all French people; our resolution proposal aimed at denouncing the Franco-Algerian agreements of 1968 has just been adopted! This is a first step toward the repeal of this convention, which is contrary to the interests of our country, and which, more than ever today, is no longer justified. Today, we are thinking of our compatriots Boualem Sansal and Christophe Gleizes, who are still being arbitrarily detained by the Algerian regime,” she said.
