While the National Rally is campaigning by promising to prevent dual nationals from accessing certain “strategic” positions. An unclear measure. In the current government and in previous ones, several ministers were themselves binational.
Minister, a strategic position? Monday June 24, the president of the party, Jordan Bardella, confirmed his desire to exclude dual national French people from positions “strategic” of the State, particularly in the Defense sector. Faced with the strong reactions aroused by the announcement of this measure, Marine Le Pen clarified on “only a few dozen very sensitive jobs in strategic positions in defense, nuclear or intelligence for example.”
The particularly vague measure comes up against an inescapable principle: dual nationals are French. They therefore have the same rights as all French people. In the government, several of them have dual nationality, as noted by Nouvel Obs.
Several binational ministers
This is the case of the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who is Franco-Italian. Or even the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, who is Franco-Moroccan.
Among the Secretaries of State, there is also the Franco-Greek Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, in charge of Development and International Partnerships, or Roland Lescure, Franco-Canadian in charge of Industry.
This government is no exception. In culture before Rachida Dati, Rima Abdul-Malak was also binational: Franco-Lebanese. Let us also cite under the Hollande government, the former Franco-Spanish Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls or the Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, also Franco-Moroccan.
As we recalled in a previous article devoted to the question, in the current state of the legislation, no ban on access to employment is set for French people holding a second nationality. A binational French person can today access all positions, including those qualified as “sovereignty”that is to say professions linked to the sovereign missions of the State (defense, budget, security, diplomacy).
