The candidate at the LR Party Congress, during which the applicant will be appointed on the right for the presidential election, particularly proposed to revise the constitution by a referendum to set “immigration quotas”.
Le Monde with AFP
At one month of the Party Congress The Republicans (LR) during which the members will choose their candidate for the presidential election, Xavier Bertrand continues to unveil his proposals. On the program, Thursday, November 4: Immigration. “No one holds the bar. France undergoes an immigration that it no longer chooses. It is urgent to regain control”, hammered the President of the Hauts-de-France in front of nearly 200 people gathered in Marck- En-Calaisis (Pas-de-Calais).
His policy will be based on “two principles,” he explained: “deciding who can settle on his soil and who must leave his soil” and that immigration “meets the needs of France and not the reverse. “It is not France that must meet the needs of immigration, it is the immigration that must meet the needs of France,” he continued.
Referring back-to-dos “xenophobes” and “well-thinking”, who rival “simplistic solutions”, and criticizing the president, Emmanuel Macron, who “dodged the question”, Mr. Bertrand proposed to “terminate the current system of regularization” and “dismantling the camps of illegal migrants”, like the “jungle” of Calais, dismantled five years ago.
“Immigration quotas”
He promised to revise by a referendum the Constitution for each year “the fixed parliament of immigration quotas”, and to reduce family immigration priority. To join his spouse, it will be necessary to present a “republican passport”, provided that the French language is controlled, and “respect the principles of secularism, equality and” primacy of the republican law “,” he explained . He also suggested to expel “any foreigner sentenced to prison closes at the end of his sentence”.
Against illegal immigration, Mr. Bertrand has proposed a “triple border policy”. With the departure countries, he pleaded for the “creation of a Mediterranean alliance” and threatened to deprive visas the countries that would refuse to “cooperate”. At European level, he wished to “prohibit any admission” in the Schengen area. At the national level, he defended a “migratory emergency law for a secure distance” of clandestines.
In an allusion to the extreme right candidate Eric Zemmour, he warned against “the temptation of hatred”. “Consider that such a religion or surname would suffice to disqualify the one who practices it or the one who carries it, it is a madness. There are strangers perfectly integrated and there are those who do not respect our country, do not deceive us of combat, “he said.
While the LR party has formalized Thursday the names of the five candidates for the Congress – Valérie Pécresse, Michel Barnier, Philippe Juvin, Eric Ciotti and therefore Mr. Bertrand -, these have until 1 December, day of the beginning of the first round, to reveal their proposals. And they will have no less than four television debates – whose first will take place Monday, November 8 on LCI and RTL -, to do it.