A small French town is naming a street after Brexit to honor the United Kingdom’s ongoing exit from the European Union.
Naming a road the “rue de Brexit,” or Brexit Street, is an “homage to the decision of the sovereign British people” to leave the EU, said Julian Sanchez, the right-wing mayor of Beaucaire, a town in Southern France.
With some irony, the rue de Brexit will sit between roads named after Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet, two founding fathers of the EU. The placement is symbolic because after decades of “Europe smothering the people,” adding a route to Brexit “is justified to rebalance things,” Sanchez told radio station France Bleu.
“It’s a street in an industrial zone, and isn’t going to shake up the daily lives of Beaucaire residents,” Sanchez said.
Sanchez said he has received “lots of support from Britons” on Twitter.
Sanchez, a member of the National Front political party, also works with the Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign. Le Pen, the head of the National Front, promised to hold a referendum on France’s membership in the EU if she is elected president of France next May.
“As I have been asking for some years, we now need the same referendum in France and in (all) the countries of the EU,” Le Pen said.
A poll last March indicated that around 53 percent of the French want a referendum on the EU membership, or “Frexit.”
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