Paris (AFP)
Bernard Cazeneuve, former Prime Minister PS, who has just published "In the Test of Violence" on his years at the Ministry of the Interior, marked by the attacks, said that President Emmanuel Macron should speak " clearly "on secularity, Wednesday on RTL.
On secularism, "it is important that the President of the Republic, in the state of confusion where his government seems to be, expresses itself clearly," said Mr. Cazeneuve.
According to him, "we are not able to calmly approach" a question like that of the veil "because the political class, and it is often the fact of its most extreme leaders, preempts serious and sensitive topics and the instrumentalize for political ends to try to assert their own points of view and what they aspire to, that is to say the conquest of power ".
"The RN did not pass any anti-terrorism law, Marine Le Pen refused to vote the intelligence law, it refused to vote all the laws that called for blocking sites calling and provoking terrorism," he said. He also criticized Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the insubordinate France, for having treated the police as "barbarians".
The former prime minister believes that existing laws "are sufficient to ensure the protection of freedom of conscience.I think of the law of 1905. All tools are on the table," he insisted.
Asked moreover about the book that publishes Wednesday François Hollande, in which the former president proposes to establish "a real presidential regime" (president elected for six years, abolition of the Prime Minister), he said to himself "a little bit out of step with him "and" very attached to the institutions of the Fifth Republic ".
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