The President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand recalled that the ban on the wearing of any conspicuous religious symbol in the hemicycle only applied to deputies.
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Jacques Witt / SIPA
“In this house, we dress freely, we are indignant freely” outside the hemicycle.
The President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand (LREM) on Tuesday ruled out any changes in the rules, despite the recent incident around a veiled student in committee, we learned from parliamentary sources.
During the conference of presidents of the Assembly, the boss of the LR group Damien Abad returned to the departure of right-wing deputies and an elected LREM, last Thursday of a commission of inquiry where Maryam Pougetoux, the vice-president of the UNEF, who had presented with a hijab.
Respect both the law and political debate
Damien Abad asked if initiatives were planned to ensure consistency of the institution's rules.
Richard Ferrand reminded him of the ban on the wearing of any conspicuous religious symbol in the hemicycle, but for deputies only.
And for the rest, "in this house, we dress freely, we are indignant freely," he said, according to reports.
The holder of the perch, in the name of the principle of secularism, added that the status quo made it possible to respect both the law and the political debate.
The departure of the deputies to protest against the presence of the veiled student, perceived by them as "a provocation" communitarian, had briefly ignited yet another quarrel over the place of religious symbols in public life.
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