Dual nationality: Rachida Dati, Eric Dupond-Moretti, Manuel Valls… which ministers or former ministers have dual nationality ?

Eric Dupond-Moretti, Rachida Dati et Manuel Valls sont tous les trois binationaux. Photos maxppp

Alors que le Rassemblement national fait campagne en promettant d’empêcher aux binationaux l’accès à certains postes "stratégiques". Une mesure peu claire. Dans le gouvernement actuel et dans les précédents, plusieurs ministres étaient d’ailleurs eux-mêmes binationaux.

Minister, a strategic position ? On Monday, June 24, the party's president, Jordan Bardella, confirmed his desire to exclude dual-national French people from"strategic" state positions, particularly in the defense sector. Faced with the strong reactions that the announcement of this measure provoked, Marine Le Pen clarified on X that the restriction would only concern "a few dozen very sensitive jobs in strategic positions in terms of defense, nuclear or intelligence for example".

The measure with particularly vague contours comes up against an inescapable principle: dual nationals are French. They therefore have the same rights as all French people. In the government, several of them have dual nationality, as noted by the Nouvel Obs.

Several binational ministers

This is the case of the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who is Franco-Italian. Or the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, who is Franco-Moroccan.

Among the secretaries of state, there is also the Franco-Greek Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, in charge of Development and International Partnerships, or Roland Lescure, Franco-Canadian in charge of Industry.

This government is no exception. In culture before Rachida Dati, Rima Abdul-Malak was also binational: French-Lebanese. Let us also mention under the Hollande government, the former French-Spanish Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls or the Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, also French-Moroccan.

As we recalled in a previous article devoted to the question, in the current state of the legislation, no ban on access to employment is set for French people holding a second nationality. A French national with dual nationality can now access all positions, including those described as “sovereignty”, i.e. professions linked to the sovereign missions of the State (defense, budget, security, diplomacy).