If the senate passes the law next year, the private operators will be forced to close down all existing accounts belonging to French players. But the madness does not stop there, from the time of the introduction of the law up until when the licenses will be granted, it will be illegal to re-register your own players. This presents the best possible platform for Française des Jeux to advertise and register real money accounts while the private operators are forced to watch from the sidelines.
On this topic, one could compare the French government to the safety car in formula one, in case of a serious incident it is the job of the safety car to get in front of the race field, slow down the pace. By far the most negative side effect of the safety car is the fact that as it slows the pace of the race, and eliminates the lead the good drivers had fought so hard to obtain, of course overtaking is prohibited while the safety car is on the track.
Therefore, in this particular case the most plausible outcome is that the safety car, once on the track, will stay there, finishing the race as champion. Some would call it cheating, some would call it French.
