In the midst of a debate on secularism, LCP is broadcasting this Wednesday at 8:30 pm a documentary entitled "Secularism: 30 years of left fracture", by Thomas Legrand and Pauline Pallier.

The opportunity to come back to the report and the history of the left with this thorny social debate. 

INTERVIEW

After the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty, killed for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class, the trial of the 2015 attacks targeting, among other things, the premises of

Charlie Hebdo

and the law on separatism driven by the government, the subject secularism is at the heart of debates and of society.

The LCP channel (The parliamentary channel) is programming a special evening this Wednesday from 8:30 pm with the broadcast of a documentary by Thomas Legrand and Pauline Pallier "Secularism: 30 years of fracture to the Left", followed by a debate. 

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"A year ago, we decided to launch a documentary on this subject which comes back regularly, which hysterizes the debates, whether in the National Assembly or in French society", tells on Europe 1 Guilaine Chenu, director of LCP programs.

"The historical depth gives another dimension to this subject. The fractures that existed thirty years ago are the same today."

The prism of a single political current to deal with this thorny topical issue is essential for the teams.

"It's a debate that has fractured the left," recalls the journalist at the microphone of Philippe Vandel.

A dilemma for the left 

Debates at the time of the adoption of the law of 1905 which separates the Church from the State ("The Republic does not recognize, does not pay, nor does not subsidize any worship") with the business of the veil at the lycée of Creil in 1989, the subject of secularism has always given rise to violent clashes, especially on the left of the political spectrum.

Because two sensibilities clash: respect for differences while being attached to republican universalism. 

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"Marie-George Buffet explains it very well: because she is on the left, because she is from the Communist Party, she must always be on the side of minorities. And suddenly she will defend her young daughters in the name of their History, and suddenly she will forget her feminist commitments ", continues Guilaine Chenu.

Facing the camera, elected officials admit to having been wrong or to having changed their positions on this subject.

"What is very interesting in the documentary is to go back to the sources", she continues.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Edwy Plenel, Caroline Fourest, Jean Glavany, Mimouna Hadjam and Manuel Valls also appear in this documentary.