Marine Le Pen’s turn to give his opinion on the issue. The leader of the national rally called on Saturday, February 8 on Saturday, February 8 to a referendum on the abolition of soil law, urging to “stop speaking, debating, blablater”, while François Bayrou said he was ready to “enter a debate “On French identity including this very sensitive issue.
“We have been debating this for 25 years, it is starting to do well. There is one thing that is better than the debate is the vote,” said the far -right leader on the sidelines A trip to Madrid, enjoining François Bayrou to make a referendum to change the law “.
“We stop Blablater”
The question asked to the French would be: “Do you agree for the bill eliminating the acquisition of nationality by the soil law ? “She said.” He makes the referendum and we stop talking, we stop debating, we stop blablater, we offer the French to give their opinion and we will respect it. Me, there is only that which will be able to convince me, “added Marine Le Pen.
Questioned on Friday on RMC, the head of government deemed “too close” a debate which would only relate to soil law as suggested by the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin. “We need a in -depth and much broader public debate than that”, including other subjects “that have been fermenting for years” around the concepts of identity and citizenship, added François Bayrou. Solicited on Saturday by AFP, the Prime Minister did not wish to return to the subject.
The RN wants the end of soil law
A centrist personality, a long time opposed to the national rally, François Bayrou had already resumed the vocabulary about ten days ago when he mentioned a “feeling of submersion” migration in France. A drastic revision of soil law is thus one of the main anti-immigration measures claimed by the RN.
Like the United States and around thirty other countries, France is a country where nationality is transmitted by soil law (“juice soli”) in addition to biological parentage, or blood law (“blood juice”). Currently, this right of the soil thus makes it possible to attribute French nationality from the age of 13 to a child born in France of foreign parents, provided that they have resided in the country for at least five years.
At the end of January, the Director General of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII), one of the structures framing the reception of migrants, had described the debates on the migratory issue as “reasonable”. France barely has “around 11 % of immigrants, that is to say people who were born foreign abroad,” he said.