I don't think so... according to me... it is too sophisticated for most of these politicians. The guy is clever and it is no coincidence that at a time of extreme economic hardship with a resurfacing debate about who is and isn't a true French, never mind how absurd this is... he picked the most controversial political individual in the French recent history who overtime justified or not became the most evil symbol of the defense of French "purity" through his alleged action as head of the interim gov during France occupation by the nazis, to expose that even this man through the definition he had of the French people and based his negotiation with the Nazis, had admitted and made his that naturalization was a mean to acquire the quality to belong to the French people.
Do u get me, think it was the point he wanted to make. A total fiasco it looks but the needle is in the coffin and we'll see.