What will be the fate of foreigners and dual nationals if the National Rally (RN) obtains power? Three days before the first round of the legislative elections, the subject constituted one of the most sensitive points of the second televised debate between representatives of the main political forces, Thursday June 27 on France 2. Side by side, the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, and the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal. A pink tie in the middle of two blue ties. Between them, a lively, tense debate, often focused on the projects of the extreme right and the left, as if the program of the outgoing Macronist majority, given third place by the polls, was no longer decisive.
In the far right’s proposals, it was that of excluding dual nationals from certain public jobs that ignited the fuse. From the outset, Gabriel Attal accused Jordan Bardella of “stigmatize 3.5 million dual-national French people”. Representing the New Popular Front, Olivier Faure later launched a second salvo. “Not only are you sorting between the French and the foreigners, but now you are sorting between the French,” snapped the first secretary of the Socialist Party. “With the abolition of land law, you are going back in time over centuries of French history,” he added.
“What a movie!” joked Jordan Bardella, downplaying the scope of his proposal: “When you are Russian, sorry, you are not put in charge of the French intelligence services,” he gave as an example – a marginal case to say the least. Between the RN decided to reduce ” drastically “ immigration and the PS assuming responsibility for regularization “all those who work in France today”, Gabriel Attal defended a middle path, “welcome less to integrate better”, quite far from the actual practice of the government in recent years.
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A strong and unexpected sequence on homophobia
At the heart of the RN project, immigration was also mentioned, in a more curious way, in connection with homophobia. A strong and unexpected sequence. Asked about the fight against discrimination, Gabriel Attal first spoke of his personal history. “I have experienced homophobia, I live it. The luck I have is that I am very well surrounded. I have protected myself.”, confided the Prime Minister, before recalling the recent opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to all women. The RN was opposed to it, but “I will not call into question any rights”, promised Jordan Bardella in the event that he reaches Matignon.
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