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French senator Bruno Retailleau during a speech at the Summer University of La Baule on August 31, 2019. AFP Photos / Sebastien Salom-Gomis

While the Senate is studying this Wednesday, October 23 a text on the veil in field trips, a new controversy stirred the political class: the issue of community lists launched by the MP LR Bruno Retailleau specifically targeting the Union of Muslim Democrats of France.

" Like everyone else, I am against communitarian lists. It is obvious. From the first of the Socialists, Olivier Faure to the National Rally of Marine Le Pen, for once, the political class speaks globally with one voice: it is "no" to the principle of the community lists.

A principle however difficult to apply. First of all legally, recalls the walker Aurélien Taché. " On what basis ? What is a community ? When do we finally enter this area? "

Aurélien Taché sees especially Bruno Retailleau's approach, and more widely of the right, an umpteenth political maneuver: " We have people who want to make the political swagger, we have people who make the com ... We have people who want to make shocking proposals, who know perfectly well that they will not solve anything, but who can please the electorate. "

The electoral text, poorly structured, stigmatizing ... the MP LR Philippe Gosselin does not agree with this statement, while defending any Islamophobia: " I would have the same speech about a political party which would put forward the defense of the Italians of France, of the Poles of France, & c. "

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In the viewfinder of the right: it is the Union of Muslim Democrats in France that has collected less than 30,000 votes in the European and aims to present about fifty lists to municipal.