Before the debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, “Le Monde Africa” questioned French dual nationality, installed in Africa.
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A few hours from the face-to-face that must oppose, Wednesday, April 20, the outgoing president to the national gathering candidate, Mehdi Gharnit does not hide some weariness. The presidential race resumes, for this 38-year-old Franco-Moroccan, to a “pretty poor debate, a divided left, a president on his pedestal who did not play the game.” And, again, the “identity questions” have been established in the foreground, is denied his companion, Leïla Benazzouz, teacher like him in a French establishment of Casablanca.
For these binationals installed on the southern shore of the Mediterranean, the rise of the extreme right themes is a heartbreak. “I do not see the link between these political speeches and the reality, I do not understand where these fears come from,” says Leïla Benazzouz, who started his career in Seine-Saint-Denis.
“As binational, it seems to me as evidence that crops are mixed up. As if I could not be 100% French and 100% Moroccan, as if I had to choose!”, Love the young person Woman, who voted, in the first round, for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, precisely because he was one of the only one “to talk about creolisation”.
Qualified in 2015 “Half-French” by Jean-Marie Le Pen who then said to doubt their “loyalty”, binationals are no longer directly targeted by the national rally. While she had ardently forbidden in 2012 and in 2017 the removal of the dual extra-European nationality, this old Totem of the far right is no longer, this year, in the Marine Le Pen program.
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A foot change decided in Catimini who surprised his supporters. But she assumes because, she said a few months ago in the world, “France has changed” and that this measure “worried [to] unnecessarily the French of foreign origin”.
Worried, Selim Ben Abdeselem, former Tunisian MP, is still still. “The extreme right has given up the bine, but there have been all exits on foreigners, the social benefits reserved for the French or the national preference,” he regrets. After voting for the ecologist candidate Yannick Jadot in the first round, the former 52-year-old socialist activist who lives in Tunis is resigned to “barring at the National Front” Sunday, April 24th.
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