"Separatism": towards a trench warfare in the Assembly
On Friday October 2, President Macron gave a speech on separatism at Les Mureaux, in the Paris suburbs.
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Fifty-one articles and more than 1,700 amendments: the bill to fight separatism is examined in committee by deputies from Monday.
Wanted by Emmanuel Macron, this text "reinforcing respect for the principles of the Republic" aims to tackle the "work of undermining radical Islamism" according to Jean Castex.
An explosive text that promises heated debates, including within the presidential majority.
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It was Aurore Bergé who lit the first fuse.
MP En Marche, from the right, tabled an amendment to prohibit underage girls from wearing the veil in public space.
Indignation of part of Macronie.
In the end, the amendment was deemed inadmissible because it had no direct link with the text.
But it is this kind of initiative that we fear at Matignon and the Élysée, quick to ignite the debates and expose the divisions of the marchers on secularism.
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It will pitch a lot
," predicts a framework of the presidential majority.
Especially since some elected officials could give in to the sirens of the right who wants to harden the text, in order to prove that Emmanuel Macron and his troops actually have a trembling hand in the face of Islamism.
The left wing of the majority will want to correct a text that it considers too repressive, a judgment shared within the government.
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The law does not attack what creates the feeling of not belonging to the Republic such as discrimination
" regrets in private a minister.
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