France, Oct. 31 -- France's National Assembly has for the first time voted a motion pushed by the far-right National Rally urging the repeal of a 1968 agreement which grants Algerian citizens special residency and immigration rights.

MPs backed the motion to end the 1968 bi-lateral accord by just one vote - 185 in favour to 184 against.

Tabled by the far-right National Rally(RN), it was backed by some conservative Republicans (LR) and members of former prime minister Edouard Philippe's Horizons group.

While the resolution is non-binding - only the president and prime minister have the power to end an international agreement- it marks a strong symbolic victory for the far-right party whose resolutions have usually been rejected by centr...