French president seeks constitutional changes for IS fight
President François Hollande has asked 925 members of France’s national assembly and senate to modify France’s constitution to enable the government to wage a more efficient war on Islamic State.
“France is at war,” Hollande began his speech, delivered in a sumptuous amphitheatre reserved for joint sessions of congress in the Chateau de Versailles. “The acts committed on Friday night in Paris and near the Stade de France are acts of war.”
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy earlier criticised Hollande for using the word “war”, saying it was “not a word one uses lightly”. Sarkozy, who will challenge a likely re-election bid by Hollande in 2017, has also called for “drastic modifications” in French security policy, implying that the socialist president has failed to keep the country safe.
The French president asked parliamentarians to extend the 12-day state of emergency declared on Friday night for three months.
He also asked it to revise the 1955 law on the state of emergency to provide a “more complete legal regime” for provisions regarding house arrest and searches without warrants.
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trample the rights of law abiding citizens to wage a fake war on terror...
quite familiar
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