“Only firmness can guarantee social peace”, says the general secretary of LR

“Only firmness can guarantee social peace.” Guest of franceinfo on Sunday May 21, the general secretary of the Les Républicains (LR) party, Annie Genevard, defends her party’s two bills to “take back control” in matters of immigration. Unveiled in The Sunday Journal (article reserved for subscribers), they provide in particular for the possibility of organizing a referendum on migration policy, the reinstatement of the crime of illegal residence and the inclusion of assimilation in the Constitution.

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There “firmness” is also essential “to guarantee the sustainability of our French integration model”, continues the deputy of Doubs. According to her, “these fundamental interests are truly called into question” and as a result “we must be able to equip ourselves with tools that will arm us in the face of a danger whose magnitude the French today clearly measure”. “We do not enter France as we want”hammers the elected official who believes that“we can no longer integrate” immigrants.

“The question is to be able to successfully integrate the foreigners who come to our soil, and if we can no longer integrate them because there are too many of them, if the social model that is ours is compromised because we cannot welcome them with dignity, I do not believe that unconditional welcome is the expression of humanity.”

Annie Genevard, secretary general of the Les Républicains party

on franceinfo

A risk of sanctions from Brussels

One of these two bills “would allow, when the fundamentals of France are at stake, to be able to derogate from European and international law”. In this case, Paris would expose itself to sanctions from Brussels. “You have to know how to measure your risk”she sweeps, especially since“Today, we have totally uncontrolled immigration which is a risk for national cohesion”.

LR denies running after the National Rally. “We are not subordinate to the decisions and proposals of the RNsays the party executive. We are making powerful, realistic proposals, commensurate with the problem facing our country, and effective.”