France: far-right leader proposes to inscribe the “control” of migration in the Constitution

The far-right candidate for the 2022 presidential election in France, Marine Le Pen, proposed this Tuesday a referendum to inscribe the “control” of immigration in the Constitution and the primacy of French laws over international law.

“¿France will remain France Or will it be swept away by the uncontrolled torrent of the gigantic migratory flows that will sweep away our culture, values, way of life? ”, he said during a press conference to detail his proposal.

Fearing of being overtaken by the polemicist Éric Zemmour, who defends the theory of a “great replacement” of Frenchmen organized by migrants, Le Pen multiplied his proposals and his statements on French migration and identity.

His referendum thus seeks “the control of migratory flows, the protection of French nationality and citizenship and the primacy of the Constitution and French law” over that of the European Court of Human Rights (TEHD) or the Court of Justice of the European Union.

In practice, some benefits, such as family benefits, would be “reserved for the French”, it would be forbidden to regularize migrants as a “rule”, “criminal foreigners” would be expelled and “accomplices” of illegal immigration would be punished, according to the extreme right.

The text of his party Agrupación Nacional (RN) also proposes that nationalization be linked to “strict and verified assimilation conditions” and proposes the withdrawal of nationality in some cases.

His proposals resemble those of the former European negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier, who generated stupor in France and in the EU for his criticism of European justice as a candidate to lead the Republiclanos (right) in the presidential election.

During a meeting of his training in September, Barnier defended a greater “legal sovereignty” in immigration policy and assured that it cannot be achieved due to the “permanent threat of a ruling or conviction” from the CJEU or the ECHR.

According to a Harris Interactive poll published on Tuesday, Marine Le Pen would fall back in voting intention to 16%, with Zemmour (13% -14%), who has not yet confirmed his candidacy, hot on his heels.