Paris (AFP)

The right and the far right expressed doubts Wednesday on the plan to fight Islamist "separatism" presented the day before by Emmanuel Macron, while the left expressed disappointment.

The mayor LR of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) Jean-François Copé said on France 2 "skeptical" and wanted the establishment of a "legislative code for secularism and cults". "It is more than an emergency when we see the rise of all forms of tension, violence, anti-Semitism, xenophobia in every sense of the word, and therefore Islamophobia," he said. he assures.

For Valérie Pécresse, Emmanuel Macron's diagnosis is "incomplete" and therefore the remedies offered "largely insufficient". "He sweeps the issue of secularism with the back of his hand," regretted the ex-LR president of the Île-de-France region on Europe 1.

RN deputy and party spokesperson, Sébastien Chenu, deemed the head of state's proposals "ranging from foreign imams to funding mosques" to be "very weak". "We do not deal with the causes. We know very well that mass immigration brings about community withdrawal," declared on Franceinfo the elected official of the North.

RN vice-president and MEP Jordan Bardella said in a statement that these "shy advances will not meet the immense challenge". "France is no longer confronted with a simple + separatism +, but with a communitarianism of conquest".

The former socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who had denounced the social and ethnic "apartheid" of certain districts, on the other hand judged that Emmanuel Macron posed "the good diagnosis on the evil".

For Greens MEP Yannick Jadot, the president is "right to recall that the Republic is One" and to "fight a political project (...) which wants a community to turn in on itself". But he regrets that Mr. Macron "put aside the suburbs plan" and "eliminated all the subsidized jobs that supported the associations in these neighborhoods". The elected environmentalist also notes an "ambiguity" when the head of state asks the French Council of the Muslim faith to act while he "is from its origin unfortunately more a representation of the countries of origin than a representation of French Muslims ".

The president of the socialist group in the Senate Patrick Kanner judged, on Public senate, "intelligent" the term of "separatism" "because the communitarianism is not an offense" and that the diagnosis is "correct". But he said he was "disappointed" with "weak measures and not quantified".

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