In her first speech since her National Rally (RN) party won the European Parliament elections in France, populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to strip Islamist dual nationals of their French citizenship and deport them.
“Bi-nationals connected to Islamist ideology must be stripped of their nationality and expelled. The French who adopt the ideology of the enemy must be brought before justice and punished. The laws exist; they just need to be applied,” Le Pen vowed.
“Radical mosques will be shut down, hate preachers expelled,” she continued. “[A]ssociations connected with Salafism and the Muslim Brotherhood will be dissolved. With me, be assured that the rights of women, today challenged by the Islamist obscurantism, will be granted to all the women of France. With me, the security will not go against liberty, in any case, not against the liberty of honest people.”
President Emmanuel Macron called a snap national election after National Rally placed first in the European elections, securing 31.4 percent of the vote against 14.6 percent for Macron’s Renaissance party.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes Macron is gambling RN lacks the resources to fight another election campaign on such short notice. For a majority in the National Assembly, RN need to secure 289 seats—a significant increase from their current 88.
Macron’s stunt may be backfiring. RN is projected to win the election even if it fails to secure an outright majority. Meanwhile, a coalition of far-left parties is projected to beat Renaissance into third place.
However, the French right is also experiencing difficulties. The establishment-right Republicans and populist Reconquest are both imploding after failed attempts to establish an electoral pact with Le Pen.
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