France, Hollande also courts right with burqa ban - Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

19:09 27 APR 2012

(AGI) Paris - In a less ostentatious way than Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Hollande has also begun to court right wing voters.
  Hollande is attempting to win over the 6.4 million voters who supported the extreme right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday. The weapon is still the same: the flow of immigration and the rights-duties of immigrants. On the latter subject the Socialist candidate announced that were he elected, he would confirm the ban on wearing the burqa or niqab in public, adopted in 2010, which Holland abstained from voting on at the time. And not only this. The Socialist leader is not a do-gooder with the intention to welcome any immigrant with open arms. "In a period of crisis such as that which we are experiencing, limiting immigration is not just necessary, but essential," he said, considering adopting the 20,000 a year limit of 20,000 already established by Sarkozy, even if he is open to a discussion on the number. . .
 

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