Petition Against the Right of Foreigners to Vote

There is a movement in France against the right of foreigners to vote, and a petition that can be signed until May 2012. This healthy and rational movement has spread to at least two of the political parties, the Droite Populaire, a satellite of the ruling UMP party, and the Front National.

The right of foreigners to vote is an initiative of the Socialist Party, but Nicolas Sarkozy has spoken out of both sides of his mouth on this issue over the past several years. Currently, since he is running again for president, he claims to be against the foreign vote.

Catherine Blein is the spokesman for the collective Citoyens contre le droit de vote aux étrangers ("citizens against the right of foreigners to vote"). She outlines the reasons why French patriots should sign the petition posted at France-Petitions:

(…) To authorize foreigners to take part in elections by arguing that only local elections are involved is a trap in which the xenophile Left wants us to fall.

The Left knows that its electoral destiny plays out long term through the right of non-Europeans to vote. The Socialist Party wants to do the same thing that the Labor Party did in the United Kingdom: open wide the gates to Third World immigration in order to change permanently the electoral stakes in its favor.

Driven by self-hatred to tragic consequences for us all, the Left scorns the destruction of our identity that would result from the pursuit and exacerbation of population substitution.

Strengthened by its victory in the Senate, the Left feels it has a good chance to win in the presidential and legislative elections of 2012.

We must urgently mobilize to prevent the Left, with help from the Centrists, from massively legalizing undocumented aliens and pseudo-refugees. We must prevent the adoption of the right of foreigners to vote as a prelude to the great population replacement that the ideologues of the Socialist Party and their allies in SOS-Racism dream of: since the people no longer vote for the Left, change the people.

These are not words to be taken lightly. Martine Aubry declared publicly that it was a priority of the Socialist Party if the Left should regain power in 2012.

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Note: A reminder that Martine Aubry is the pro-Islamist mayor of Lille, who lost the presidential nomination to François Hollande. No doubt her close and shady association with Dominique Strauss-Kahn did her no good.

If there are any French people who wish to sign the petition, click the link provided above.

Update: November 26 - A phrase that I used several times in the original version has been changed. This affects the title as well, but it will not change the perma-link. I had written "the right to vote for foreigners". This awkward and misleading phrase has been changed to "the right of foreigners to vote." Apologies for my clumsiness, but translating sometimes results in an inability on my part to think properly in English.