Le Pen promises constitutional amendment enshrines ‘national priority’ if elected president of France

INA-  SOURCES


France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen promised Tuesday that if she wins next year’s presidential election, she will amend the constitution to enshrine “national priority”, abolish the right to acquire citizenship because of land ties and deprive non-Frenches of family benefits.
 
Le Pen, who in the previous presidential election in 2017, qualified for the second round, is today, according to opinion polls, in a good position to do the same in the next elections.
 
During a press conference held in Paris, the candidate of the “National Rally” party for the presidential elections wondered whether “France will remain France, or will it be swept away by the torrential torrent of massive immigration that will erase our culture, values and ways of life?”
 
She added that if she was elected as President of the Republic, she would put to a public referendum a draft law “to control immigration” aimed at achieving three goals: “controlling the flows of immigrants, protecting French nationality and citizenship, and the supremacy of the French constitution and law” over European and international law, including the European Treaty on Human Rights and court decisions. European Justice.
 
She explained that her draft aims to include in the constitution provisions for “controlling the entry of foreigners” and “deporting foreigners who are convicted of serious crimes or misdemeanors or undermining public order”, and enshrines “national priority” and “prohibits all sectarianism.”
 
She added that her electoral project also includes “abolishing the right to land” (the right to acquire citizenship due to association with French territory) and subjecting naturalization to “strict and proven conditions of integration.”
 
The far-right candidate also pledged to stop the principle of family unification, and to make some government benefits, such as family allowances, “only for the French.”
 
She also promised Le Pen that the prevention of settlements would become “the norm” and so would the “deportation of delinquent foreigners”.
 
 
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