French Election: Moroccan Immigrants Consider Leaving if Far-Right Candidates Win

"If Zemmour or Le Pen take the keys to the Élysée, I’ll leave France with dignity," says Halima, a divorced mother of three daughters, a resident in France, interviewed by Le Point Afrique. Zemmour had announced the creation of a "ministry of remigration and threatened to deport 100,000 undesirable foreigners annually. I’m not an undesirable!" she says. Her daughter, Houda, expresses the same feeling. "With Le Pen, I won’t be able to have French nationality, nor have access to family reunification. Applying for a French visa will be difficult. No right of asylum. And above all, the presidential candidate plans to take away my veil!" She hopes with all her heart that the National Rally candidate will not win the presidential election.

For Hicham, an agronomist who has been living in France for four years now, the choice is the same: to leave France where he would no longer feel at home if one of the far-right candidates (Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour) became President of the French Republic. "As a Moroccan resident in France, I would like to feel at home. The era of racism is over. If the president himself is racist and doesn’t want Maghrebis in his country, what’s the point of dreaming of a life in France. I’d rather go to other countries that don’t have the Maghrebi complex," he confides.