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De Villiers’ Immigration-Referendum Petition Claims Over 1.4 Million Signatures as Verification Doubts Grow

Independent tests show the privately hosted site allows repeated or fake signings, casting doubt on the figures.

Overview

  • Organisers now tout roughly 1.47 million signatories, with Nicolas Dupont-Aignan joining the list of public backers on Wednesday.
  • Earlier endorsements from Laurent Wauquiez, Éric Zemmour, Sarah Knafo and Stanislas Rigault helped drive visibility for the campaign.
  • Multiple outlets and experts, including HuffPost, franceinfo and a TF1‑interviewed Inria researcher, demonstrated that identities are not authenticated and that duplicate or fabricated entries can be recorded.
  • The team behind the site reports outages, claims two cyberattacks were thwarted and says about 5% of entries were filtered as invalid, assertions that remain independently unverified.
  • The petition form solicits contact details and offers optional email transfer to Lagardère Media News, contrasting with the Assemblée nationale platform used for the Duplomb petition, which authenticates identities and has only a few thousand signatures on an immigration referendum bid.