[NEWARAB] Rising far-right parties in La Belle France wants to ban French people with dual nationality from holding "sensitive" jobs. The deeply unconstitutional measure is worrying the large Franco-Maghreb community.
"The most strategic positions of the State will be reserved for Frenchies," said National Rally (RN) president Jordan Bardella this week.
The measure will "prevent" French people with dual nationality from occupying "extremely sensitive jobs," the list of which will be defined "by decree" after the adoption of an "organic law."
When asked if the police would, for example, be among these "sensitive positions," RN assured that it is "not at all in its entirety, but some specific positions, such as the DGSI" [Directorate General of Internal Security].
Bardella, known for his anti-immigrant stance, said the measure would affect "very, very few people."
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the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) estimated that 3.3 million French people could be banned from accessing certain jobs if the RN's promise became law.
FAR-RIGHT: TAKES ON DUAL CITIZENSHIP
This is not the first time the RN has toyed with the idea of differentiating between people with only French citizenship and those who hold a second one, mostly due to their multicultural background.
Dual nationals account for 5% of the population of La Belle France. 90% of them are immigrants colonists or descendants of immigrants colonists. More than two-thirds are North African immigrants colonists, while the rest are mostly Ottoman Turkish or Portuguese immigrants colonists.
At a certain point, the National Rally (RN) — formerly the National Front (FN) — considered abolishing dual citizenship.
"You have to choose: you are an Algerian or a French citizen," said Jean-Marie Le Pen in an interview in 1985.
His daughter Marine Le Pen has carried on this idea despite their infamous discord. In 2022, she abandoned her dad's theory, saying she had "evolved" on the issue of dual citizenship.
In December 2022, amid the football match between La Belle France and Morocco, Bardella said there were "French people of foreign origin locked into repentance and hatred of La Belle France," a "generation that has reached adult age (...) and behaves like nationals of a foreign state."
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