The acting president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella opposed on Wednesday Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to better distribute the foreigners received in France, accusing him of wanting to “punish ruralityand called for a referendum on the subject.
“I don’t want French villages to look like Seine-Saint-Denis or Porte de la Chapelle“, denounced on France Info the one who is a candidate to officially take over from Marine Le Pen in November.
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Bardella proposes a referendum
According to him, the President of the Republicwants to punish rurality because distributing immigration in the countryside and in French villages also means distributing the problems that result from it: the problems of insecurity, the problems of communitarianism, the problems of changing our modes of life“.
“What do a Sudanese and an inhabitant of a village in Creuse have in common?he wondered. “Today the French, in all the opinion polls, do not want additional immigration, so I suggest that he organize a referendum on the question of immigration and ask the French if they wish to intensify the flows in the villages and in the French countryside“, did he declare.
“I invite the government to organize a referendum on the question of immigration at the beginning of 2023 before this bill“, he insisted.
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By announcing on September 15 a bill on asylum and immigration “from the beginning of 2023“, Emmanuel Macron pleaded for a better distribution of the foreigners welcomed, in particular in “rural areas, which are losing population” and or “we will have to close classes, presumably schools and colleges“.
In these regions, estimated the Head of State, “the conditions for their reception will be much better than if we put them in areas that are already densely populated, with a concentration of massive economic and social problems“. It’s a “good solution“which should allow”break up the ghettos“, estimated Tuesday the boss of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (Ofii) Didier Leschi.
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