A referendum on immigration is possible for Jordan Bardella. The president of the National Rally estimates this Wednesday, May 14 that this remains possible, despite the reluctance expressed by the head of state this Tuesday night.
Emmanuel Macron swept the idea of a consultation on this topic specifying “do not see what is happening in the field of Article 11“, Remembering to be” guarantor of the Constitution. “The President” does not see “how a referendum on immigration” would allow being effective. “
The Constitution specifies that a referendum can only be related to “the organization of public authorities, to the reforms related to the economic, social or environmental policy of the Nation and to the public services that contribute to it, or that tend to authorize the ratification of a treaty.”
Immigration “is not a taboo or a totem”
But for Jordan Bardella, immigration is “an issue that relates to the economic and social organization of the nation.” The elected official of the extreme right evokes in France 2 “the possibility of reserving social help for our compatriots.”
“I do not understand that in a country where we have an increasingly important public debt that we continue more people and that our social system takes care of the entire land with total cold,” explains Jordan Bardella, judging that “all this costs us a fortune.”
For the latter, immigration “is not a taboo or a totem” and remember that if the RN comes to power, the “first measure will be to activate a referendum on immigration.”
“We will submit to the French all the necessary measures to recover control,” announces the president of the RN.
Questioned by our colleagues in France 2 about the possibility that the Constitutional Council obtains this referendum, Jordan Bardella replied that “what is possible in another place must be possible in France.” “All countries that surround us are tested by voluntary policies that we can recover control, reduce migratory flows and control our borders,” says the extremely correct MEP.
The last referendum in France dates from 2005 and had the purpose of ratification of the European Constitutional Treaty. Since he came to power in 2017, Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly shared his desire to organize a referendum. This Tuesday night, the Head of State announced that a referendum on immigration “can be a form” in case of a “jam” in Parliament, while deputies are currently working on the issue in the National Assembly.
Source: BFM TV
