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French Politician Proposes 'Lottery' for Compulsory Military Service for Immigrants

Summary by The Local - Fr
Louis Sarkozy - son of the ex president and a candidate in next year's elections - has unveiled a plan to create a lottery to force new arrivals in France to do military service.

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Louis Sarkozy, candidate for Menton City Hall, supported the idea of a "lottery" where 10% of "new legal immigrants" would be forced to serve in the army. With the idea: "That the barracks serve to make French"

·France
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While Emmanuel Macron could relaunch voluntary military service, Louis Sarkozy nurtured the debate by pleading for a model reserved for volunteers, but including a share of legal immigrants selected by "loterie". ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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The son of the former President of the Republic believes that a partial return to compulsory military service would serve to strengthen national cohesion.

·Paris, France
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The issues of integration and national cohesion regularly crystallize tensions in the French public space. For several years, the debate on the return of military service has been fuelling political and media discussions. The proposals sound, oscillating between nostalgia for a past and the desire to reinvent the republican whole life. However, the son of the former president crossed an additional course by suggesting that legal immigrants shoul…

The son of the former president suggests the idea of including by lottery a part of the regular immigrants and of the perpetrators of minor crimes in the army, presented as a remedy to the challenges of integration. During a media passage, the candidate to the municipal of Menton presented an alternative vision of the national service. He described the current system as [...] L-article Louis Sarkozy proposes selective military service by drawing…

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Le Parisien broke the news in Paris, France on Monday, November 24, 2025.
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