As Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier or Marine Le Pen, the presidential candidate challenged the primacy of European law on “constitutional identities” of the Member States of the European Union.
Le Monde with AFP
The decision of the Polish Constitutional Court to judge some of the European treaties incompatible with the constitution of his country still provokes jerking in the French presidential campaign. And especially on the right. After Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier, or Eric Zemmour, it was the turn of Valérie Pécresse to challenge the rule of European law on the “constitutional identities” of the Member States of the European Union (EU).
On CNEWS, Wednesday, October 13, the latter said “very shocked” by the order given in July to Poland by the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) to stop immediately the activities of the Disciplinary Chamber of its Supreme Court, institution put in place as part of a reform of the country’s judicial system. In the wake, the Polish Constitutional Court challenged the rule of European law on Polish law. This decision, which threatens the funding by the EU of Poland, could represent for this State a first step possible towards the exit of the European Union.
“Europe exercises its magisterium in the context of the treaties which are above our laws but can not be above our constitutional identities or that of Poland, nor that of France,” a However, estimated M me pecresse. “Europe is Europe of nations, has it continued. It means that our constitutional laws, our constitutional identity, to each, each sovereign state, must prevail over the European court.” Before it , other candidates for the Elysee had challenged the primacy of European law.
“Legal Sovereignty”
At the Republicans, the former Brexit negotiator for the EU and nomination candidate, Michel Barnier, defends, to the amazement of many of his former colleagues in Brussels, the need for a “legal sovereignty” But only in immigration, because there will be “other Brexit” if nothing changes, he considers. For its part, Xavier Bertrand proposes to introduce into the Constitution “a mechanism for safeguarding the higher interests of France. When these are at stake, the popular sovereignty must prevail”. Same tonality at Eric Ciotti, who “calls France to amend Article 55 of the Constitution to affirm the primacy of the Constitution on European decisions”.
For Marine Le Pen, who no longer wants to leave the EU or the euro, any international text deemed contrary to the Constitution will remain “inapplied”, so that France will not “need to go out” treaties. The national gathering candidate brought his “support” to Poland and considered that this decision, by this decision, “exercised his legitimate and inalienable right to sovereignty”. After the Polish episode, the extreme right polemicist and putitative candidate, Eric Zemmour, had denounced in a statement “a federalist coup” against Poland and estimated that it was “time to return to French law his primacy on European law “.
On the left, the candidate of the “Remontada”, Arnaud Montebourg, judges that “the defense of the national sovereignty of the Member States is fundamental”, even if he “does not approve the clerical and reactionary Government of Poland “.