on immigration, national law “must take precedence”

2023-05-09 11:02:00

The President of the Republicans also indicated that his party was going to table a reform text aimed at reforming the Constitution.

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The President of the Republicans Éric Ciotti considered that national law should “take precedence” in immigration matters.
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Published on 05/09/2023 at 11:02 am

Por Éric Ciotti, the president of the Republicans, national law must “take precedence” in immigration matters. This is what he announced on Tuesday, May 9 on France Inter, before indicating that the elected LR would “very quickly” file a “powerful” reform text aimed at reforming the Constitution. “It is up to the French to decide” who we want to welcome “and not to texts which have a legitimacy which is not assured”.

He therefore wishes that the French approve “by referendum a constitutional reform which allows us to regain our sovereignty” and say “that we cannot undergo this migratory pressure because of its European commitments”, he assured. “So we have to review them” and “say that if the legislator so wishes, national migration law must take precedence in all circumstances”, he added.

The RIP, not in conformity with the Constitution according to him

The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes had already called, at the end of April, for a referendum in this direction, attacking in particular the European Court of Human Rights, which authorizes family reunification.

READ ALSOPension reform: Elisabeth Borne-Éric Ciotti, deadly tangoÉric Ciotti, on the other hand, said he was hostile to the idea, defended by the deputies LR Aurélien Pradié and Pierre-Henri Dumont, of a referendum of shared initiative on immigration, because it “is not in conformity with the constitution”.

Giorgia Meloni « a raison »

Asked about Italy’s warnings to France on immigration, the president of LR felt that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “is right”. “This instrumentalization is a pretense, it is to divert attention,” he said, while Gérald Darmanin accused Italy of being unable to manage its migration problems. “The problem is not there, it is the protection of the external borders of Europe”, he affirmed, believing that “we are going to look for scapegoats”.

Finally, on the Renaissance group’s bill to make the French and European flags mandatory on the facade of town halls, he announced that LR was going to “amend this text”. “The obligatory nature of the tricolor flag, we agree”, but it is a question of “making it optional for the European flag”, he affirmed, recalling that “the Constitution says that there is a single emblem, the tricolor flag”.