Separatism: controversy before the final adoption of the bill in France

The National Assembly is due to vote this Thursday and definitively adopt the bill “on respect for the principles of the Republic and the fight against separatism”.

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The National Assembly must vote this Thursday, July 22 and definitively adopt the bill "on respect for the principles of the Republic and the fight against separatism".

A text wanted by Emmanuel Macron as a regal marker of his five-year term and a reaffirmation of republican principles, but which continues to cause controversy.

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Officially, the text aims to guarantee the neutrality of the public service, to better fight against online hatred and to supervise family education, but the government has never hidden that it was above all a question of fighting against this. that the executive qualifies as an “ 

Islamist takeover bid 

”.

The deputies and the senators were not mistaken there since the main part of the debates since February related to the Islamic veil.

The right, but also the Modem, yet an ally of the majority, have thus attempted to introduce amendments to prohibit religious symbols for school guides, at the university or for polling station assessors, all of whom have been questioned.

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There remains a text which aims to dust off the famous 1905 law on secularism: signature of a republican employment contract by all associations benefiting from public subsidies, strengthening of State control over private educational establishments outside the contract. and an obligation for places of worship to declare any funding received from abroad.

For the mayors, the question will be extremely difficult ...

Olivier Bianchi, socialist mayor of Clermont-Ferrand

Aurélien Devernoix

A text denounced in advance by the opposition, " 

soft 

" for the right, a " 

retreat 

" for the extreme right, whose proposals on the prohibition of Islamist outfits on the territory were not retained, and a “

one-legged

 ”

text 

for the left which deplores the abandonment of social measures which initially were supposed to accompany this text to get neighborhoods out of ghettoisation.

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