Chronic. Marine Le Pen smiles, post on Tiktok videos of his cats, caresses the voter of sweet words like “Concorde” or “National Union”, and smiles again. Who, in such a serenity decor, would be sufficient enough, pretty pretty, to read in detail the forty-six indigestuous pages of his project “control immigration”? However, it is necessary to go through one of the challenges of the presidential election: the strategy “sweetness” of the candidate of the national rally (NR) masks a brutal project of destruction of the institutions of the Republic, from rupture with the universalist ideals of the French Revolution, but also divorce with the European Union.
This time, M me Le Pen does not fall in the wall: no explicit promise of “Frexit” or rupture with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), but A spectacular hold-up on the constitution of the V e Republic which leads, neither known nor known, in the same result. The Constitutionalist Dominique Rousseau denounces “a kind of coup”. This is correct, with the peculiarity that the Republic would be emptied of its meaning by the French people itself, via a referendum. Not even needing diabolizing label – “extreme right” – to denounce this legal pronunciamon which would rock France into illiberalism to Hungarian.
The constitution, a thin watch mechanism, has nothing untouchable, as evidenced by The revisions adopted since 1958 . But it is to a radical rewrite that the twenty-three pages of the “referendary bill” of Marine Le Pen target. Central objective: prevent immigration from “changing the composition and identity of the French people”. Hallucinating tools: erect discrimination and xenophobia in constitutional principles opening the possibility of prohibiting private employment, housing, social assistance to foreigners; drastically restrict the right of asylum by making the exercise impossible into French territory; Abolish soil law – French nationality could no longer acquire by birth in France, but only by filiation (right of blood).
counter-revolution
This counter-revolution implies both to violate the Declaration of Human Rights of 1789, which devotes the principle of equality of all before the law, the preamble to the 1946 Constitution inspired by victory over the victory. Nazism, according to which “no one can be injured, in its work or employment, because of its origins” and the Gaullist Constitution of 1958, which takes up the two previous texts. The LePenist project also breaks with the constitutional principle that “any persecuted man because of his action for freedom has the right to asylum in the territories of the Republic”. As for the removal of soil law, it banishes a basic republican principle, inherited from the old regime but stably codified since 1889, according to which nationality is acquired by education in France. Even Vichy has not touched it.
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