Chegi’s proposal to limit social support for immigrants was contained in the same terms in Marine Le Pen’s National Union platform for the 2022 French presidential election.
The party led by André Ventura puts forward as one of the conditions for the viability of the state budget for 2025 “that foreigners should not receive subsidies until they have spent five years in Portugal.”
In France, Le Pen in 2022 advocated limiting the payment of social benefits and active solidarity income, equivalent to the income from social investments in Portugal, to foreigners who have worked in the country for at least five years.
In December 2023, the French Senate and National Assembly approved President Emmanuel Macron’s government’s immigration control bill. Le Pen’s party was not involved in drafting it, but the far-right leader said it was an “ideological victory” for the National Union.
Under the law, non-EU foreign nationals (from outside the European Union) had to live in France for five years or work for two and a half years before being eligible for social support.
In January, France’s Constitutional Council rejected more than a third of the measures, namely conditions that would have hindered access to social benefits and family reunification.
Author: Miguel Bravo Morais And Andreia Churra Pereira
Source: CM Jornal
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