Jean-Luc Mélenchon on October 2, 2020 in the Doubs.

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On the right as on the left, the offensive against "Islamist separatism" of Emmanuel Macron has not convinced.

Its opponents criticize a speech they consider irrelevant.

The National Rally and part of the right are firing red balls on the proposals of the Head of State exposed this Friday in Mureaux (Yvelines).

"This text will be a blow for nothing", predicts the deputy LR, Eric Ciotti about the future bill.

The RN would have liked to hear about immigration

At the RN, the deputy for the North Sébastien Chenu criticizes “timid and sometimes worrying” measures while Gilbert Collard, MEP, hails “a good program” but “destroyed from within” by the role entrusted to the French Council of Muslim worship which he considers "infiltrated" by the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Not a word on massive immigration which is the breeding ground for communitarianism", adds the RN in a press release.

On the left, the reactions are more nuanced, as for the report drawn up by the Head of State, but it is estimated that the solutions put forward by the president do not attack the real causes.

The boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure admits that the presidential proposals "avoid the trap of stigmatizing an entire religion" but regrets the absence of a shift in economic and social policy.

On the left, the regret of a stigmatization of Islam

“Emmanuel Macron makes a rather fair diagnosis of the weaknesses of our Republic but reduces his responses to Islam.

Nothing on the districts that the Republic abandons ”, observes the PCF deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, Stéphane Peu.

LFI leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon for his part castigated the "hypocritical and evil character" of Emmanuel Macron's speech, during a trip to the Doubs.

“The discourse on separatism is an absolutely useless dramatizing scene: the law, as it is today, makes it possible to repress criminal acts such as possible sermons, of any religion whatsoever, against the Republic or calling for violence, ”continued Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

According to him, Emmanuel Macron "espouses a certain opinion in the country" which considers that "all the problems come from Islam".

The future bill against separatism must be presented on December 9 before being debated in 2021 in Parliament.

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