France faces “existential collapse” unless citizens are given the chance to vote on immigration, former Culture Minister and author Philippe de Villiers warned as he launched a nationwide petition to force a referendum.
Blasting what he called President Emmanuel Macron’s “paralysed” government, de Villiers compared today’s France to the chaos that toppled the Fourth Republic in 1958. Rising crime, uncontrolled migration, and the loss of national sovereignty, he said, risk turning the country into “a nation without borders, without power, and without a future.”
De Villiers accused Macron of surrendering French independence to Brussels and Washington while failing to confront Islamist extremism and violent crime. Only a direct popular vote, he insisted, can “break the deadlock” of France’s political elite.
The former minister’s campaign comes ahead of his new book Populicide, due in October, which argues that France is undergoing a “civilisational transformation” without the consent of its people.
