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VSIt's an announcement that shook the political class. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, introduced, this Sunday, February 11, a constitutional revision meant to take away land rights in Mayotte, whereas the island has been paralyzed since January 22 by blockades and roadblocks put in. by “citizen collectives” who protest towards insecurity and uncontrolled immigration.

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On the best, we welcome such a measure, even when some would love the manager to go even additional. Thus, after congratulating the Minister of the Interior, on the microphone of BFMTV, the candidate of Reconquête within the European elections, Marion Maréchal, requested the extension of the measure “to the entire French territory”. “Because the reality is that what Mayotte is experiencing today is what the metropolis will experience in 30, 40, 50 years if we do nothing,” she justified.

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Questioned on Europe 1, the candidate of Debout La France, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, also welcomed the position of the minister, proposing that the French decide on the suppression of this right at the national level via a referendum.

Welcoming “strong announcements”, the LR deputy for Mayotte Mansour Kamardine asked that the abolition of land rights in Mayotte be included in the draft constitutional law on New Caledonia, the examination of which will begin next month in Parliament.

“It’s the end of land rights in France”

On the left, on the other hand, the announcement worries. The Socialist Party has already announced that it will oppose this revision of the Constitution. On France 3, the boss of the socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, estimated that this measure was not going to change anything in the situation of the Indian Ocean island, faced with a serious migration crisis and an explosive social and security situation. .

“This is why I am not in favor of revising land law in Mayotte, which is already under the influence of a legal regime which is much more severe for obtaining French nationality than the rest of France,” said -he emphasized. And continues: “The land rights are not negotiable. »

READ ALSO In the powder magazine of MayotteAccording to Boris Vallaud, despite “two gendarmerie operations” on the island, and “announcements”, “public services are incredibly dysfunctional” and the government “adopts a bad way” of managing the difficulties in Mayotte.

Same observation among the Greens, while Marie Toussaint, head of the environmentalist list in the European elections, fears that this revision will “damage our Republic”. “The demolition of our values ​​by a President of the Republic who is ahead of the far right is a terrible step backwards,” she lambasted on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

The environmentalist deputy Aurélien Taché additionally denounced the measure on BFMTV: “When we break like that with land law, which has been attached to French republican history for more than two centuries, it is because we consider that the Nationality is no longer attached to the place where you are born but to the origin or nationality of your parents. “, he blurted out on the continuous television channel. According to him, “if this provision goes through to the end and if Marine Le Pen then comes to power, it will be the end of land law in France”.

On the Insoumis aspect, MEP Manon Aubry deplored “this new ideological victory” of the far proper, which “applauds” Gérald Darmanin's announcement. “Having broken the taboo of national preference, Macronie attacks the very concept of nationality, the foundation of the Republic,” she denounces on X.



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