The right of the soil, what is it?
In France, the law recognizes both the right of blood and the soil . In the first case, a child born of at least one French parents automatically obtain French nationality by descent. In the second, a child born on French soil of foreign parents can automatically acquire French nationality when he comes of age, provided they have lived at least five years in the country since the age of 11.
the former president and current chairman of Republicans advocating a “fairly substantial change ‘ ” i want to be on guard, but not automatically “ he explains citing a ” presumption of nationality, allowing not to award citizenship to someone who had a criminal record in his majority, or might prove that his parents were undocumented at the time of birth. ”
A change of gear in relation to the discourse in his book France for Life , published earlier this year.
“I’m booked on the opportunity of questioning [...] of jus soli. A child born in France is French. “
turnovers Series
For a challenge to the right of soil
a year ago, his position was reversed (and close to the current challenge of jus soli): Nicolas Sarkozy announced in June 2015, he was ready to tackle one of the foundations of the republican pact:
“Should we question the right of the soil? This question, undoubtedly, can arise. “
An idea inspired by the Alpes-Maritimes MP Eric Ciotti, which proposes to limit the right of the soil – now in force for all – only to EU nationals European
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This refusal of procedure “automatic” already was promoted in 1993 by Charles Pasqua, then Minister of the interior: to obtain French nationality, children born in France of foreign parents must initiate accession process to 18 years (conditions deleted five years later by the Socialist government of Lionel Jospin).
to ground the right
This questioning of jus soli is an about-face Nicolas Sarkozy over the taking of a free position it occupied before. “I am for the right soil. We will keep. I was quite consistent on this position, even if this can cause us problems. The right soil is France ‘, he declared between the two rounds of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Faced with Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2003, explaining not only that his father was foreign (Pal Sarkozy is of Hungarian origin) but also the father of his mother (Benedict Mallah is of Greek origin), he said that “right of blood, it is nonsense “, justifying the relevance of jus soli:
” the right of blood can not be enough. It takes the right soil, because there is always someone who has a crazy idea in my head, because it always has blood that is not pure enough. It takes how many parents to be French? (…) The right soil is part of our tradition, Mr. Le Pen. “
At the end of the interview, the National Front leader even evoked differences ” quite irreconcilable “ with Nicolas Sarkozy about it. The chairman of the Republicans, who presented himself in 2007 as “a little French Half-Blood,” is now a fairly close line of the National Front party:
The proportion Automatic obtaining French nationality by jus soli remains very low, about 10%. Of the 30,000 children born in France of foreign parents and becoming French right through the floor, only the 3000 automatically acquire free to request each year.
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