Ségolène Royal explaining something.

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Political personalities never stop commenting on the subject: Thursday, a student unionist from UNEF, Maryam Pougetoux, came to speak about student precariousness before a committee of the National Assembly.

"Problem": this student is also veiled, which did not please several deputies who made it known and left the room.

Ségolène Royal, Member of Parliament from 1988 to 2007, would also have left the room.

That's what she said this Friday morning in front of Jean-Jacques Bourdin, on BFMTV and RMC.

Veiled trade unionist in the National Assembly: Ségolène Royal (@RoyalSegolene) "would have left the room" pic.twitter.com/tlaebRv41k

- BFMTV (@BFMTV) September 18, 2020

The former socialist candidate in the 2007 presidential election even said she was "stunned by these images".

However, the rule of the lower house, like the principle of secularism enacted in 1905, did not prohibit Maryam Pougetoux from wearing her veil, including during a hearing in the Assembly.

Secularism promotes the neutrality of public space, in public space, and for civil servants, not for users of public services for example.

At the Assembly, those interviewed are not prohibited from wearing religious symbols.

"Militancy" and "provocation"

It is indeed the regulations that must be changed, for Ségolène Royal: it is necessary to oblige the people auditioned to have their heads uncovered, "so that one does not necessarily target a religion even if it is indeed that anyway which is targeted ", did she say.

“The regulations of the National Assembly did not provide for this case: because it was unpredictable!

“, Said the former minister.

She believes that the veil worn by Maryam Pougetoux is "militancy" and "provocation".

“She has the right to provoke, fortunately we can be provocateurs in our society.

But opposite there are the limits, there is the rule.

Even when the rule says it is within its rights, then.

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