State of Emergency Reigns over France to “protect elections”

State of Emergency Reigns over France to “protect elections”

Sergio Serna, Editor, Writer

French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has urged that a national state of emergency that began upon the Paris attacks remain in place another year so as to defend the coming French  election process through July 15. Parliament is anticipated to accept the measure, and it will be the firth invocation of national emergency powers since the attacks that took place last year on November 13.

Herein, Islamist extremists with gun and bomb attacks murdered around 130 French citizens and wounded hundreds more. Quartiers and streets all over Paris were alight with gunfire and brimming with the blood of hapless bystanders. In one attack did elements of ISIS enter a club full of people; whereupon, they gunned down ninety, all dead. Since then, the ubiquitous national alarm has granted French police the right to carry out searches and place people under house arrest. By these emergency powers, more than 3,000 houses have been raided since and around 300 suspects, many proven malefactors, have been arrested.

PM Cazeneuve asserted that another extension was indispensable because France’s parties and figures could be targeted by similar attacks. He and partisans aver that democracy must be defended against “those who want to strike our democratic values and republican principles at the heart.”

Now, upon the upcoming elections are growing numerous nationalist and other far-right groups, namely National Front, that are vying to eradicate what they feel is the root of the trouble: illegal immigrants. National Front’s Marine Le Pen proposed that all children of illegal immigrants be refused education as part of a larger estrangement.

“If you come to our country, don’t expect that you will be taken care of, treated, and that your children will be educated for free,” Le Pen said.

The National Front has attained preponderant momentum after Donald Trump’s victory in American office. However, as of now, they are expected to be runners up to the opposition’s Francois Fillon. Both Le Pen and Fillon strongly reject the notion of “multiculturalism” and call France to defend its ancient, rich identity. The immigrant, to them, must adopt these customs.