After two weeks of intense debate, the deputies of the National Assembly adopted the bill against Islamist "separatism".
The text was widely approved by 347 votes in favor, 151 votes against and 65 abstentions, before its consideration in the Senate from March 30.
In the shade of a topicality crushed by the upheavals of the health crisis, the "marchers" were able to avoid the trap of the division on a material however highly flammable.
Often mobilized in the Hemicycle around a project promised to many vicissitudes, they defended a text of "balance" even if this positioning was dented by a recent media release by Gerald Darmanin.
The Minister of the Interior suggested that Marine Le Pen was "softer" than the majority in the fight against Islamism.
Wanted by Emmanuel Macron, the bill confirming respect for the principles of the Republic sets part of his speech at Les Mureaux (Yvelines) on October 2, 2020, which detailed his program against Islamist separatism.
Presented as the remedy against the "Islamist OPA", the bill contains a battery of measures on the neutrality of the public service, the fight against online hatred, the supervision of family education - ultimately the most discussed -, reinforced control of associations, better transparency of religions and their funding, and even the fight against virginity certificates, polygamy or forced marriages.
Rich in some 70 articles, the text gave rise to 80 hours of debates and the adoption of 144 amendments.
His detractors accuse him of being "talkative" and "catch-all".
March 30 in the Senate
By announcing future measures in favor of equal opportunities, the executive seems to have succeeded in defusing the reproaches of the left wing of LREM, regretting the absence of a social component in this text promoted above all as "orderly" public".
The left has regretted a "one-legged" text which only works on the repressive side.
For the patron saint of socialist deputies, Valérie Rabault, the law does not provide "an answer to ghettoization".
In the Senate, where the bill must be examined in session from March 30, Bruno Retailleau, leader of the majority right, intends to remove the controversial article on home schooling, introduce the notion of "Islamist separatism "and the ban on the veil in public places.
Nearly 200 people demonstrated in Paris on Sunday against the bill accused of "reinforcing discrimination against Muslims".
With AFP
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