Last week, some Insoumis deputies had staged a “false marriage” between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron in front of the Assembly. Reality almost joined fiction this Sunday on BFMTV when the leader of the RN said “100 times yes” to a proposal from Gérald Darmanin: that of expelling “any foreigner” who “has committed serious acts”.
In a newspaper interview The world Saturday, the Minister of the Interior said he wanted to “allow the expulsion of any foreigner found guilty of a serious act by the courts, regardless of their condition of presence on national territory”. Today, the law sets conditions to prevent the expulsion of foreigners, in particular an arrival on the territory before the age of 13, a provision that the minister wishes to skip.
Darmanin, however, qualifies the RN as “an enemy”
This measure must be integrated into the future law of orientation and programming of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi), “presented at the start of the school year”, according to the minister. “It is part of the elements which show that a word from the French was heard during the legislative campaign”, pleaded Olivier Véran, the government spokesperson, in the Grand Jury program, on RTL-LCI-Le Figaro sunday. A proposal which “must be able to unite beyond our sole majority”, according to him, because “security is not the prerogative of the right”.
Gérald Darmanin has already said he is ready to discuss Lopmi “with the LRs, the centrists and even part of the left”, but excluding the National Rally and La France insoumise, formations which he described as “ enemies” on the RMC / BFMTV set on Tuesday. “I respect them as parliamentarians” he had specified, “but we do not have to discuss, to negotiate with the RN or La France Insoumise”.
“This takes Mr. Darmanin out of the commonly accepted rules of the Republic”, reacted Marine Le Pen on Sunday. “The RN deputies did not fall from the sky, they were elected by millions of French people,” she continued. “The Republic is founded on respect for democracy. For her part, the rebellious MP Clémentine Autain denounced on Twitter the idea of expelling “any foreigner” who “has committed serious acts” as a measure that “speaks to the guts of the far right”.